I am wondering if anyone has any information on this 'district'. It is neither part of Eastern Market, Poletown, nor MacDougall-Hunt... I'd call it "South Gratiot"... but there is a cluster of buildings around Gratiot and Chene that I'd say are underappreciated lately. It is very close to downtown, along a major thoroughfare, footsteps to Eastern Market, Dequindre Cut extension, and the historic commercial strip along Gratiot from Dubois to Joseph Campau is fairly intact and has some great period architecture on either side. Gratiot was widened around the same time as Woodward and Michigan, so there is some cool deco architecture on the south side, and some buildings on the north side that survived the widening and date from the late-1800s. Is this the next hot spot? Sure, the prairies of Poletown East are right there, but surely something is poised to happen with those plots soon ... There seems to be a lot of potential for this area.

Also, does anyone have any historic images of this area along Gratiot?