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Although it is unclear when Chinese immigrants first arrived in Detroit, as newspapers in the 1800s did not differentiate between the different cultures of East Asia, it is known that in 1874, 14 Chinese washermen lived in the city. [6] In 1905, Detroit's first two Cantonese chop suey restaurants opened near the Detroit River. [7] However ...
The 1980 U.S. Census counted 1,213 ethnic Chinese in the City of Detroit. Zia wrote that the figure was "surely an undercount" but that the Chinese population in the City of Detroit "was unquestionably small." [4] The presence of family-owned businesses in the Detroit Chinatown area had declined by the 1980s. Zia wrote that by that decade, the ...
Detroit's Chinatown was originally located at Third Avenue, Porter Street and Bagley Street, now the permanent site of the MGM Grand Detroit casino. [68] In the 1960s, urban renewal efforts, as well as the opportunity for the Chinese business community to purchase property, led to a relocation centered at Cass Avenue and Peterboro. [69]
The building at 3143 Cass Avenue in Detroit’s historic Chinatown was demolished after a last-ditch attempt by the City Council and locals to save it failed.
Chinatowns are shrinking. It’s happening everywhere in America—from Philadelphia to San Francisco, where I reside. San Francisco is home to the first and largest Chinatown in the country, but ...
The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget). The first comprehensive analysis of the city's tens of thousands of abandoned and dilapidated buildings took place in the spring of 2014.
Couzens told the city's newspapers that he thought Detroit was still too small for a subway, and wouldn't need one until it had at least 2 million people. (Detroit's 1920 population was just under ...
In South Africa, Johannesburg Chinatown has fallen victim to crime in that city and is being largely replaced by a new Chinatown in suburban Cyrildene. In Sydney, Australia, there are also multiple quasi "Chinatowns" in the suburbs, notably in the communities of Cabramatta, Chatswood, Paramatta, among others, which are rapidly outpacing the old ...