Is Chene the worst commercial district in the city?

[MidTownMs]

Your first sentence is true. A lot of people think the suburban areas on the ring of the city is how much of the city always looked, which isn't true. Detroit was onliy slightly less dense than Philadelphia in its prime, and it probably had an urban structure similar to South Side Chicago.

Chene Street has A LOT of competition for the worst commercial district in the city.

Van Dyke is absolutely post-apocalyptic from 6 Mile to Harper, possibly even up to 7 Mile.

Kercheval is terrible too. From Alter Road to Conner, and again from St. Jean to Mt. Elliot there was nothing but commercial establishments along it in the 1950s-1970s.

Mack [[from Gratiot to at least Alter Road), Forest [[from Van Dyke to Cadillac Blvd.) and Warren [[from McClellan to at least Alter Road) are all pretty bad too.

And the above was just to name a few streets.

So basically what you are saying is, that as far as commercial establishments go, the Eastside sucks...