Cass Corridor (Detroit, Michigan)

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The Cass Corridor area of Detroit gained its name of approximating the boundaries of the Lewis Cass farm running north in a strip between Woodward and 4th Street, now the Lodge Expressway bordered on the south by the I-75 Expressway and the north by Grand Blvd. The Cass Corridor's descent began earlier than Detroit's. Already, by the sixties, its once grand but declining apartments were becoming flop houses as the district became Detroit's bowery, a zone of winked at prostitution, alcoholics, drug dealers, strip joints and the destitute. Once an area containing magnificent apartments and houses, it was devastated in the seventies and eighties era of decline. Now an area of empty fields, it is prime real estate in Detroit's new boom.
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Coordinates:   42°20'46"N   83°3'45"W

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  • It's already booming. Might want to check the papers on that one. Granted there are some eyesores still remaining, but it's a LOT better down there now! Very artsy, chic location mainly of Gen-Xers and professionals. Oh, it's now called "Midtown", to try to remove the blight the name "Cass Corridor" carried with it. I still call it CC, but it's now pretty decent.
  • Did anybody notice that this location is marked as being in Canada? Technically it's right, being about 5km from the city's center, but it's about 1km from Detroit's center, and the last time I checked this location was in Detroit, Michigan, USA. For about 230 years now.
  • Well, we took it over, we annexed it. Sorry.
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