Quote Originally Posted by bartock View Post
Bham - for the third time, it is the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance. Check the AOD site. Read the article cited above for some information. I wasn't aware that the Gratiot Corridor, Lower East Side of Detroit was a neighborhood, but talk to police or folks around there and the neighborhoods north of 94 along the Gratiot Corridor are generally considered palpably worse. Plus, that area isn't at all as empty as you are suggesting...you are describing swaths of Van Dyke north of Harper, or Harper east of Gratiot to the airport possibly; you could also be describing some areas between Gratiot and Jefferson over there, but that is much too big of an area to describe as one neighborhood. Streetfront retail on a well-traveled thoroughfare that many folks shortcut from downtown to 94 to avoid traffic snarls is not a bad idea...and depending on the retail, with the A of D name tag on it there will be foot traffic from the neighborhood AND those who would otherwise drive by on their way back to the suburbs. That is what happened to On The Rise. Having reformed, screened, ex-cons living in the rooms above, like with OTR, has provided stability and security to the McClellan building. That is likely the thought with this as well.

The Neighborhood is called Gratiot Woods