The US Highway system was the major interstate travel route before the interstates. I think that any place along those routes ended up with some motels [[you see them in the UP, etc), especially those places with minimal or no zoning at the time. Inkster has a lot of hotels, but so does Telegraph Road in Redford, another place with minimal zoning back then.
Two other considerations would be:
Is the place a logical place for where many people would stop for the nights? Being on the outskirts of a major city would be..
Is the place one where economically the motel has not been replaced by some other development in the last 50 years? If Inkster had a brighter economy, some of those motels would have been torn down.
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