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New Center, Detroit
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In 1891, Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree broke ground on the construction of Grand Boulevard, a ring road that wrapped around the city of Detroit.Richard Bak, Detroit Across Three Centuries, Sleeping Bear Press, 2001, {{ISBN|1-58536-001-5}}, p. 60. The Boulevard ran for {{convert|12|mi|km}}, curving from the Detroit River on the west to the river on the east and crossing Woodward Avenue at a point approximately {{convert|3|mi|km}} from downtown. The Boulevard was originally thought to represent the absolute limit of the city's expansion, although tremendous growth at the beginning of the 20th century quickly pushed the city limits far beyond Grand Boulevard.In the 1890s, major railroad infrastructure known as the Milwaukee Junction was built just south of Grand Boulevard to facilitate industrial expansion in the city of Detroit.Eric J. Hill, John Gallagher, and the American Institute of Architects Detroit Chapter, AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2002, {{ISBN|0-8143-3120-3}}. pp. 168â169. To take advantage of the rail line, industrial plants were built in this area on both sides of Woodward Avenue, with the automotive industry prominently involved. Part of this area east of Woodward is now the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District, while the area west of Woodward and south of the railroad tracks is the New Amsterdam Historic District. Most notably, in 1904, Burroughs Adding Machine Company built a large factory on Third, and the following year Cadillac built an assembly plant just to the east of Burroughs.Fogelman, pp. 57â66.In 1915, Henry Ford bought the financially struggling Detroit General Hospital and its lands on Grand Boulevard and Hamilton (just west of Woodward) and reopened it as Henry Ford Hospital with 48 beds.Fogelman, pp. 9â20. Soon after, Ford broke ground on a {{convert|50000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility at the same location; the larger hospital opened in 1921.Architecture
(File:Detroit December 2021 35 (New Center skyline).jpg|thumb|250px|Skyline of New Center)In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the automobile industry in Detroit grew rapidly. The economic surge made land in downtown Detroit difficult to obtain. The lack of suitable parcels frustrated William C. Durant in his search for the optimum location for his planned General Motors headquarters. Durant looked to the north, and settled on a location just west of Woodward Avenue on Grand Boulevard. At the time, the area was a residential district of private homes and small apartment buildings.Fogelman, pp. 22â23.Durant hired Albert Kahn to design his building, and ground was broken in 1919. The building was originally to be called the "Durant Building", but Durant left the company before the building was completed, so when it opened in 1922, the building was called the "General Motors Building" (now the Cadillac Place). As General Motors continued to grow, the company required more space. In the later 1920s, they built a second building, the General Motors Research Laboratory (also known as the Argonaut Building), also designed by Kahn, directly south of their headquarters. The building was built in two phases, and was completed in 1930.Fogelman, p. 32.Around the same time, the Fisher Brothers of Fisher Body followed General Motors to the area. They broke ground on their eponymous Fisher Building in 1927, located across Grand Boulevard from the General Motors Building. The Fisher Brothers also hired Kahn, and spared no expense to construct their headquarters building. The followed this up with the construction of New Center Building (now the Albert Kahn Building), completed in 1932.Fogelman, pp. 37â48. The Great Depression, however, forced the Fishers to break off their plans to construct a complex of buildings in New Center, including a grandiose three-towered version of the Fisher building.In 1940 Saks Fifth Avenue opened their fourth full-line department store in this building.WEB,weblink Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, The store closed in 1978 and relocated to Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn.Henry Ford Hospital has continued to expand. The hospital has built numerous additions to their campus since its inception by Henry Ford, from the Clara Ford Nursing Home in 1925 to their high-rise clinic in 1955 to hospital apartments in 1976. In 1992, Henry Ford purchased the old Burroughs headquarters to the south and renamed it One Ford Place. The building is now the Henry Ford Hospital corporate headquarters.In 1966, the Hotel St. Regis was built on the north side of Grand Boulevard near General Motors' headquarters. In 1988, the hotel was doubled in size.Fogelman, pp. 84â85. In 1980, General Motors built another addition to the heart of New Center, New Center One, located across Grand Boulevard from their headquarters. The new eight-story building housed retail stores, offices, and some divisions of General Motors.Fogelman, p. 35.In 1977, General Motors began refurbishing some of the residential neighborhoods north of Grand Boulevard. The result was the "New Center Commons", a collection of refurbished single-family homes on the north side of New Center. With the revitalization of Virginia Park, New Center has two distinct historic residential neighborhoods within its boundaries. General Motors also facilitated the rehabilitation of some multi-family dwellings. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new townhomes and condominiums were constructed in what had been empty areas of New Center, including a section along Woodward just north of Grand Boulevard. Additional loft renovation (as well as TechTown, the WSU research and business incubator hub) took place at the same time within the New Amsterdam Historic District.Economy
New Center served as a kind of corporate campus for GM for 70 years. However, the company left the area in the 1990s, moving their headquarters to the Renaissance Center downtown. The old General Motors Buildingânow called Cadillac Placeâis owned and occupied by the State of Michigan.The economy of the New Center area is largely dominated by Henry Ford Health, the Detroit Public Schools system with their headquarters in the Fisher Building, and more than 2,000 State of Michigan employees in the high-rise office complex Cadillac Place.Shinola has its headquarters, and 30,000-square-feet in the College for Creative Studies, â CCS â (originally the Argonaut building, or General Motors Research Laboratory). In 2012, Shinola renovated the fifth floor and turned it into their corporate office as well as a watch factory and bicycle workshop.NEWS, VanderMay, Ann, Think you know Shinola? Think Again.,weblink April 19, 2014, CNN Money, July 9, 2013, NEWS, Muller, Joann, In Bankrupt Detroit, Shinola Puts Its Faith In American Manufacturing,weblink Forbes, July 26, 2013, January 29, 2015, NEWS, Gomelsky, Victoria, Shinola Puts Motown Watches in Motion,weblink April 19, 2014, JCK Magazine (Online), June 1, 2013, In 2014, Shinola gifted the city of Detroit with four new 13-foot tall street clocks, installed at Cobo Center, Eastern Market, in front of the College for Creative Studies at the corner of Cass and Milwaukee, and near Shinola's own first retail location, at the corner of Cass and Canfield.WEB, Doerr, Elizabeth, Shinola Installs Vintage-Style City Clocks In Detroit,weblink Forbes, March 10, 2014, Midtown Detroit, Inc., has become a driving force behind the planning, investment, and future development north of Detroit's downtown area, and has expanded those area boundaries, and of the New Center area by going north to Philadelphia Street, east to the Chrysler Freeway (I-75), south to the Edsel Ford Freeway (I-94), and west to Rosa Parks Boulevard.WEB,weblink Map: Midtown Boundary is Expanding, May 12, 2014,Districts{| class"wikitable sortable"
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Historic 6001 Cass Avenue building, houses new offices, and a 6,000-square-foot gallery for WSUâs art collection, after $40M renovation.NEWS,weblink The Platform Signs WeWork as Tenant for 6001 Cass in Detroit's Tech Town Neighborhood, Dbusiness Magazine, September 13, 2019, WEB,weblink $40M renovation project in TechTown pays homage to building's Cadillac roots, November 13, 2020,
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Historic 6001 Cass Avenue building, houses new offices, and a 6,000-square-foot gallery for WSUâs art collection, after $40M renovation.NEWS,weblink The Platform Signs WeWork as Tenant for 6001 Cass in Detroit's Tech Town Neighborhood, Dbusiness Magazine, September 13, 2019, WEB,weblink $40M renovation project in TechTown pays homage to building's Cadillac roots, November 13, 2020,
- Albert Kahn Building (200 unit residential building)
- Argonaut Building (College for Creative Studies)
- Cadillac Place (GM Building / state office complex)
- Detroit Amtrak station (Adjacent to QLine Baltimore Street station)
- Fisher Building
- Henry Ford Health System
- Henry Ford Hospital
- Hitsville U.S.A.
- Hotel St. Regis, Detroit
- Metropolitan United Methodist Church
- New Center One (Henry Ford Medical Center)
- New Center Park
Gallery
File:New Amsterdam streetscape - Detroit Michigan.jpg|Streetscape on Cass, looking north, in the New Amsterdam Historic DistrictFile:Fisher Building Detroit.jpg|The Fisher Building, which has the headquarters of Detroit Public SchoolsFile:WoodwardatGrandBoulevardDetroitMI.jpg|Woodward Avenue looking north just past Grand Boulevard at the Lakeshore Global BuildingFile:NewCenterTownhomes.jpg|New Center townhomes on PallisterFile:HenryFordHospitaldetroit.jpg|Henry Ford HospitalFile:Henry Ford Health System Headquarters June 2008.jpg|The Henry Ford Health System Headquarters Complex in New CenterFile:Detroit St regis Hotel New center area.jpg|Hotel St. Regis, DetroitFile:General Motors building 089833pv.jpg|General Motors Building (now Cadillac Place)File:Detroit December 2021 23 (Pallister Street).jpg|Homes on Pallister, a pedestrian only street in this block.File:ApartmentsonSewardDetroitMI.jpg|Apartment building (Wellington Place) at 59 Seward Avenue on the north side of New Center under renovation in 2017 for 91 senior apartments.WEB,weblink Developer continues work in Detroit neighborhoods, April 12, 2017, File:WJBK-TV Studios Building Detroit MI.jpg| The former WJBK-TV Studios Building (on the National Register of Historic Places) sold to developers in late 2019.WEB,weblink National Register of Historic Places, March 4, 2016, WEB,weblink New Center developers buy former WJBK building for $2.6M, January 13, 2020,Culture and contemporary life
New Center has a retail section, primarily along the Woodward and Grand Boulevard corridors. The Cadillac Place state office complex and the Fisher Building are National Historic Landmarks in the area."Workers begin recount of Detroit mayoral race." The Detroit News. December 9, 2005. Retrieved on August 15, 2010. "The day got off to a slow start in 1 Cadillac Place, the former GM headquarters on West Grand Boulevard,"Fogelman, pp. 67â71. An area south of Grand Boulevard along Woodward contains some retail stores in the district which have existed at their present location since the 1920s.New Center. Retrieved on July 8, 2009. The boutique Hotel St. Regis, Detroit is adjacent to the Fisher Theatre.The Consulate-General of Lebanon in Detroit is located in Suite 560 in the New Center One Building.Home page {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110054934weblink |date=January 10, 2006 }}. Consulate-General of Lebanon in Detroit. Retrieved on February 1, 2009."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060110054934weblink">Contact Us." Consulate-General of Lebanon in Detroit. January 10, 2006. Retrieved on November 7, 2009.New Center hosts the annual summer-long series of events in New Center Park and includes a 1,000 person outdoor concert venue with a center stage capable of hosting national acts.New Center ParkGrand Boulevard, along its entire extent, became an attractive residential address at the beginning of the 20th century. This was also true in the area that was to become New Center. At the turn of the century, a number of private homes were built along Grand Boulevard and in the neighborhoods to the north, notably including what is now the Virginia Park Historic District on the northern edge of New Center.Fogelman, pp. 87â100. Interspersed in the area were small apartment buildings. Larger apartment buildings were constructed in the area in the 1920s to serve the population of workers and visitors to the area after larger office buildings had been built on Grand Boulevard.Revitalization
The 2010s have seen a growth of new development in the New Center area. One of the first major projects, begun in 2010, was by the Henry Ford Health System of a $500 million revitalization effort of 300 mostly blighted acres for hospital expansion and neighborhood redevelopment just south of the main hospital campus on the western edge of New Center. The first development on the new South Campus site was the construction of a $30 million, 275,000-square-foot, Medical Distribution Center on 18-acres, built for Cardinal Health, Inc.WEB,weblink Cardinal Health opens $30 million medical products distribution plant in Detroit, June 9, 2015, Further plans were announced in 2017, with the construction of a new $155 million, 187,000-square-foot, six-story, Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion, along with a skywalk across West Grand Boulevard to connect it to the Henry Ford Hospital, opened in January 2021.WEB,weblink Henry Ford begins $155M cancer pavilion expansion, WEB,weblink Building Hope: Henry Ford's New Cancer Pavilion, WEB,weblink Building Hope: New Cancer Pavilion to Open January 20, 2021, In February 2023, Henry Ford Health announced plans for a major $2.5 billion development, and will partner with the Detroit Pistons and Michigan State University.WEB,weblink Henry Ford Health Partners with Detroit Pistons and MSU on $2.5B Expansion, February 8, 2023, (File:QLine maintenance facility, May 2017.jpg|thumb|250px|Streetcar maintenance bay, inside Penske Tech Center)Additional new construction in New Center includes Wayne State University's, $92 million Integrative Biosciences Center (IBio),WEB,weblink Wayne State University IBio - The Integrative Biosciences Center, the 2015 M-1 Rail Penske Tech Center,NEWS, John, Gallagher, February 15, 2015,weblink M-1 Rail's Tech Center Under Construction, Detroit Free Press, February 15, 2015, WEB,weblink New Home of Detroit's streetcar line unveiled, the $60 million, 231 apartment & retail space complex, The Boulevard,WEB,weblink $60 million The Boulevard development opens in New Center, December 5, 2019, WEB,weblink The Platform breaks ground on Third and Grand, the first such major development in Detroit's New Center in decades, the $137 million Detroit Pistons practice, training, and team headquarters building, known as the, Henry Ford-Detroit Pistons Performance Center,WEB,weblink Pistons, Henry Ford unveil new joint training, medical facility and team HQ, February 23, 2017, WEB,weblink Detroit Pistons and Henry Ford Health System Announce State-Of-The-Art Training, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Complex, WEB,weblink Henry Ford-Detroit Pistons sports medicine complex in New Center, September 18, 2019, and the WSU Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) new Data center attached to the current Computing Services Center, along with a new Pocket park along Cass Avenue.WEB,weblink WSU Construction begins on new university data center, February 6, 2018, WEB,weblink Granger Construction begins on new university data center,missing image!
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6200 Second Avenue, now the Lofts at New Amsterdam, with 62 loft units, located across from the new Pistons Performance Center WEB,weblink Construction begins on 62-unit New Amsterdam Lofts, May 22, 2007,
New Center has also seen redevelopment of existing structures. This includes U-Haul's 2013 restoration of the 250,000-square-foot, seven-story historic NBC-Nabisco Building, built in 1920 at 899 W. Baltimore St.WEB,weblink U-Haul Is Open for Business in Detroit's New Center Area, WEB,weblink U-Haul moving into historic, and renovating the 250,000 square foot former Nabisco building, and, in 2014, the conversion of the Hotel St. Regis annex into a 58-apartment residential building, now known as Regis Houze.WEB,weblink 58-unit Regis Houze apartments opens in Detroit's New Center, November 10, 2015, WEB,weblink Barbat set to turn St. Regis House into a success, In 2015, Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation announced a $10.2 million plan to renovate the four-story, 44-unit, 42,200-square-foot Casamira Apartments at 680 Delaware St., built in 1925.WEB,weblink State gives $1M grant to renovate Casamira Apartments, WEB,weblink Detroit nonprofit to invest $10.2 million to redevelop New Center apartment building, August 25, 2015, In 2018, a local investment group purchased the 125-room Hotel St. Regis, and plans a $6 million modernization,WEB,weblink Investment group buys Hotel St. Regis
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6200 Second Avenue, now the Lofts at New Amsterdam, with 62 loft units, located across from the new Pistons Performance Center WEB,weblink Construction begins on 62-unit New Amsterdam Lofts, May 22, 2007,
, February 18, 2018, and that was followed by the purchase of the Albert Kahn Building by a joint venture with a $58 million plan to convert it into 211 apartments, and more than 75,000 square feet of retail and office space, and renamed, The Kahn.WEB,weblink Albert Kahn Building redevelopment to cost $58 million, October 15, 2018, In 2022, the former WJBK-TV studios building was purchased, and donated to the nonprofit Midnight Golf Program to become their new headquarters. A $10-12 million
reconstruction is planned.WEB,weblink Former long-vacant historic WJBK building to become Midnight Golf headquarters, September 1, 2022, In the Greater New Center area, the 1913, nine-story, so-called Rainbow Building, now known as, Chroma, completed a $16 million redevelopment with large floor-to-ceiling windows all around the building.WEB,weblink The Platform's Chroma Development, November 1, 2020, WEB,weblink Detroit Artist Sydney James Commissioned For Chroma Development Mural, August 26, 2020, Further redevelopment was underway at 3040 E. Grand Blvd and John R St, on the Albert Kahn historic 1901 designed sandstone constructed residence for Robert Robertson.WEB,weblink Realtors plan $1.12 million rehab of E Grand Blvd building, May 31, 2019, WEB,weblink Albert Kahn Legacy Projects, WEB,weblink Picture of 3040 E Grand Blvd before restoration, Education
New Center is within the Detroit Public Schools district. DPS has its headquarters in the Fisher Building."School Location Map {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730073000weblink |date=2012-07-30 }}." Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on November 7, 2009. The district paid the owner of the Fisher Building $24.1 million in 2002 so the district could occupy five floors in the building.Oosting, Jonathan. "Audit: Detroit Public Schools overpaid millions for real estate after middle-man markups." MLive.com. September 24, 2009. Retrieved on November 7, 2009. Officials claimed leasing the Fisher Building as its headquarters was more economical than a remodel of the Maccabees Building in Midtown where the district previously had its headquarters.Duggan, Daniel. "Freman Hendrix asked about Detroit Public Schoolsâ $13 million lease in 2001." Crain's Detroit Business. November 4, 2009. Retrieved on November 7, 2009.Duggan, Daniel. "Construction profits for Detroit Public Schoolsâ projects excessive, Bobb says." Crain's Detroit Business. October 28, 2009. Retrieved on November 7, 2009.Three schools, Golightly K-8, Loving Elementary, and Thirkell Elementary, serve sections of New Center for elementary school."Elementary Boundaries - 2012/13 School Year." (weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120722161417weblink">Archive) Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. Golightly K-8 and Durfee K-8 serve sections of New Center for middle school."Middle School Boundaries - 2012/13 School Year." (weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130130220628weblink">Archive) Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. All residents are zoned to Northwestern High School."High School Boundaries - 2012/13 School Year." (weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120722161555weblink">Archive) Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on November 1, 2012.In addition, the New Center area houses the administrative offices of the University Prep Schools system,"About." University Prep Schools. Retrieved on August 8, 2015. "Our Offices[...]610 Antoinette St Detroit, MI 48202" along with the following schools:- Ellen Thompson Elementary School"Ellen Thompson Elementary School." University Prep Schools. Retrieved on August 8, 2015. "Ellen Thompson Elementary 957 Holden Detroit, MI 48202"
- Mark Murray Elementary School"Mark Murray Elementary School." University Prep Schools. Retrieved on August 8, 2015. "Mark Murray Elementary 435 Amsterdam Detroit, MI 48202"
- University Prep Academy High School (New Center)"UPA High School." University Prep Schools. Retrieved on August 8, 2015. "UPA High School 600 Antoinette Detroit, MI 48202"
History of schools
Previously Sherhard K-8 served sections of New Center for elementary and middle school."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060214010500weblink">Elementary Attendance Areas." Detroit Public Schools. July 10, 2003. Retrieved on November 3, 2012."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060214010407weblink">Middle School Attendance Areas." Detroit Public Schools. July 10, 2003. Retrieved on November 3, 2012. Previously Hutchins Middle School served sections of New Center for middle school."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110725234517weblink">Middle School Boundary Map." Detroit Public Schools. Retrieved on November 7, 2009. Previously Murray-Wright High School and Northern High School served sections of New Center, while at the time Northwestern High School did not serve New Center."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060214010429weblink">High School Attendance Areas." Detroit Public Schools. July 10, 2003. Retrieved on November 3, 2012.Media
During the 1950s and 1960s, the studios of WJBK (then a Storer Broadcasting-owned CBS affiliate) were on Second Avenue in New Center. After WJBK moved to Southfield in 1970, WTVS (Detroit Public Television), the city's PBS station, took over the New Center site and operated there until 2008."Driving Directions." WTVS. Retrieved on December 8, 2012."weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050204044522weblink">Frequently Asked Questions." WTVS. February 4, 2005. Retrieved on December 8, 2012. "Detroit Public Television 7441 Second Avenue Detroit, MI 48202".See also
- Woodward Corridor
- Woodbridge
- North End
- Lee Plaza
- Motown Museum
- Milwaukee Junction
- Neighborhoods in Detroit
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