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Young Rosedale Park HS High School HS International Airport L L L Howell HAMTRAMCKHamtramck Park L F 94 Grandmont 39 GRAND RIVER WYOMING SCHAEFER SCHAEFER LIVERNOIS LIVERNOIS F F VAN DYKE VAN VAN DYKE VAN Chandler OUTER DRIVE U Park F SCHOOLCRAFT CHALMERS NORTH CENTRAL F Wayne County Community Finney High F College District HS School Central Eastern Campus High F HS School Boston-Edison HS F H WOODWARD 75 GM plant F Historic District 5 CHICAGO Kettering MACK CONNER 96 P ROSA PARKS High School F PLYMOUTH Sacred Heart LINWOOD P Seminary 10 F Chrysler L F GRAND BLVD. Southeastern plant River MEYERS L P High School HS Rouge DEXTER F CHICAGO Henry Ford EAST Proposed CADILLAC Park F Cody High Hospital H commercial F School F farm area GRAND RIVER L H VAN DYKE JOY HS College for F F U Creative Studies GRATIOT MT. ELLIOTT F Wayne State L Northwestern U Indian BLYTHE BLYTHE HS University WARREN High School H Village TIREMAN TIREMAN Detroit Medical H Center H Mt. Elliott F H Cemetery JEFFERSON WARREN F F Elmwood Map key F UAW Eastern Cemetery F SOUTHFIELD SOUTHFIELD DOWNTOWN Market headquarters GREENFIELD GREENFIELD L Detroit council HS member F Ford F 96 Cass Tech Field L King High High School HS Comerica LAFAYETTE School Belle P Police 94 F Isle station Park DAVID PIERCE/Detroit Free Press L MICHIGAN 75 L L Library 12 375 NEWARK Wayne County Community College F H Hospital District U SOUTHWEST 17th Hart L Western F Plaza F Fire station International Mexicantown FORT F High School HS LIVERNOIS ABOUT THIS MAP HS High school Clark Park F This is not a district map. It is an area map created by Data Driven Detroit F Here's one plan for U University L P Ambassador (D3), a nationally recognized nonprofit research and analysis agency. Bridge 75 dividing up Detroit to D3 is run by Kurt Metzger, a data collection specialist who helped the Free Press build this map using census tracts and said he “tried to honor neigh- Woodmere F Historic produce a better city borhoods by using defined master planning areas and subcommunities.” Cemetery Ft. Wayne D3 also used parameters chosen by the Free Press that elections officials do F government when not consider. For each district, those included income, age and education levels, number of married residents and single-mother families. Addition- voters begin choosing ally, the Free Press charted on the map selected features such as schools, parks and police and fire stations, homes of current council members and a Divided seven council mem- “jewel” of each area. The true redistricting map will be drawn by the Detroit Elections Commis- F bers from districts sion — the city clerk, the City Council president and the city corporation counsel — using street blocks, not census tracts, and based solely on under a charter change population. Based on the language voters approved last year, the commis- sion must establish wards that are “compact, contiguous and of equal approved last year population.” we stand NORTH NORTHEAST EAST DOWNTOWN SOUTHWEST WEST END NORTH CENTRAL Jewel: Palmer Woods and Palmer Park Jewel: Coleman A. Young International Airport Jewel: Belle Isle Jewel: Ford Field and Comerica Park Jewel: Mexicantown Jewel: River Rouge Park Jewel: Henry Ford Hospital This area takes in some of Detroit’s This area has some of Detroit’s most This area features the upscale Indian This is the business, entertainment and This area is anchored by Mexicantown and The West End is home to three of the In the heart of the city, this tough, toniest real estate — Palmer Woods, densely populated neighborhoods — and Village and East English Village, two of cultural hub of Detroit, home to General includes Southwest Solutions – a human city’s most stable middle-class neighbor- tattered expanse of single- and multi- Sherwood Forest, University District — as some of its emptiest ones up and down Detroit’s best-looking neighborhoods, Motors, Compuware and Quicken Loans, services agency – and the Ambassador hoods: North Rosedale Park, Rosedale family homes includes the stately Boston- well as several solid middle-class Van Dyke and Mt. Elliott. Home to even as it struggles to maintain stability. plus Ford Field, Comerica Park, Joe Louis Bridge, the international crossing between Park and Grandmont. It also includes Edison neighborhood, which struggles to neighborhoods. It includes the former Coleman A. Young International Airport, It includes most of the city’s high-rise Arena, Cobo Hall, the Detroit Institute of Michigan and Canada. It is home to Brightmoor, which was the focus of more maintain its grandeur, Russell Woods, a State Fairgrounds, a site for future retail this area has been in decline for at least a dwellings on Jefferson plus some of its Arts, the main branch of the Detroit ArvinMeritor and Clark Park. The string of than $70 million in cleanup and building middle-class island in a sea of rough development, Palmer Park and the Detroit quarter century and should be one of the priciest riverfront property, such as the Public Library, Fox Theatre, Eastern stores, restaurants and shops along West efforts as part of the Next Detroit streets, and the remnants of the old Golf Course and its surrounding mansions. biggest beneficiaries of district govern- luxury neighborhood where Mayor Dave Market and three casinos. Vernor represents Detroit’s most vibrant Neighborhood Initiative. North End, home to historic Paradise The University of Detroit-Mercy, ment. Bing lives. It also includes St. John Wayne State University and the expand- commercial strip. The area is home to most The West End also has Rouge Park, the Valley. Marygrove College and Sinai-Grace Frank McGhee, who lives near Kelly Road Hospital and beautiful Belle Isle. ing Detroit Medical Center also are here. of the city’s Latino population, but also to city’s largest, with a golf course and three The area takes in Henry Ford Hospital, an Hospital also are here, as is Second a vibrant Arab-American community. and is the program director for the But a stretch between Chalmers and The district has stable middle-class Olympic-size pools. The area’s center is economic powerhouse that plans major Ebenezer Church, Bishop Edgar Vann’s Neighborhood Service Organization’s Connor has some of the worst vacancies Having a council representative would the Old Redford business district. retail and residential development; the 5,000-member sanctuary. But this area neighborhoods in Lafayette Park and Youth Initiatives Project, wants his future and dilapidation in the city. The area also Corktown and is home to the city’s largest finally give this vital section of the city a Rosedale Park resident Mary Schneider Fisher Building and theater; the renovated contains some of the city’s bleakest council member to focus on crime, takes in the 110-acre site that a Detroit voice in municipal affairs. St. Regis Hotel; the new Detroit Branch streets, too. publicly held company, DTE Energy. wants her family to feel safe. particularly crimes against senior citizens. businessman wants to turn into urban Despite being seen as the jewel of the “Finally, some political representation NAACP headquarters; the New Center Vann said he hopes the new governance But McGhee also wants the area to stand farmland. “I would like a stronger police presence, towers; and the historic Little Rock city, it suffers some of the same problems that’s not by chance, but representation although we’re finally getting that after system will bring “competent fighters for more than blight. Bill Brooks, president and CEO of United as other areas of Detroit. based on population,” said Ozzie Rivera, Baptist Church. that will go to the council table to making a lot of calls,” said the 52-year-old “I want them to focus on revitalizing our American Healthcare Corp. and an Indian “The crime situation has to be 56, a southwest resident and director of teacher. “You’ve got people breaking in The Rev. Jim Holley lives downtown but advocate specifically on behalf of that community, bringing more dollars into our Village resident, said he is ready for a new Special Projects in the Wayne County pastors Little Rock, an anchor in an area area of the city. He said that single addressed,” said Nefertiti Harris, who repeatedly, and people are getting so area,” he said. “We don’t have a business system of accountability in city govern- lives in North Corktown and runs Textures Family Services Office. discouraged. I would like a council that he says cries out for new business. representatives could push to make every association, but we do have a neighbor- ment, “particularly in terms of making district meet the needs of its residents by Nefertiti, a hair and beauty spa on “Districts based on geographic and member who has an intimate knowledge “I think we all are looking for accessibility hood association, Detroit Area Residents sure the grass is cut and snow is removed.

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