Back in the 1980s, yes. In fact, this was a popular area for city workers.
The demogrphics didn't really start for the worse in NE Detroit [[roughly north of 7 mile, east of Van Dyke, eaat of Kelly and South of 8 Mile) until the drug war got out of hand during the late 80s/early 90s and especially after the lifting of the residency requirement.
The fact that the area was so well served at the time by commercial establishments [[healthy Eastland Center, Bel Air, Kroger, etc.) highlights this.
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