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Metropolitan Parkway or Metro Parkway is a major thoroughfare in Metro Detroit that stretches west from Lake St. Clair Metropark to Bloomfield Township. Metro Parkway corresponds to 16 Mile Road in Metro Detroit's mile road system , and is sometimes referred to as such by area residents, but it is rarely officially called 16 Mile.
Downtown Detroit is the city's central business district and a residential area, bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, the Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.
The sections of highway through the Detroit metro area were given Business Loop (BL) or Business Spur (BS) I-96 designations. [38] [39] Until the 1970s, the freeway section of M-5 was part of I-96. When I-96 was completed in 1977, several highway designations were shifted in the Metro Detroit area.
Parkland was annexed by the city of Detroit in the 1920s. Along with the Parkland neighborhood the city also annexed additional land directly to the east, which was turned into Rouge Park (the city's largest inland park at 2 square miles (5 km 2)). The majority of the homes in Parkland were built between the 1920s and the 1950s.
The baseline used in the survey of Michigan lands runs along 8 Mile Road, which is approximately eight miles (13 km) directly north of the junction of Woodward Avenue and Michigan Avenue in downtown Detroit. As a result, the direct east-west portion of Michigan Avenue, and M‑153 (Ford Road) west of Wyoming Avenue, forms the zero mile baseline ...
Detroit Hope Hospital: Wayne: Detroit: Closed in January 2010. United Community Hospital: Wayne: Detroit: 388: Yes: October 10, 1974: January 30, 2006: Owner accused of embezzlement charges against insurance provider. Hospital liquidated by Wayne County on January 31, 2006. Currently abandoned. Interior gutted in 2017. St. John Detroit ...
M-59 is an east–west state trunkline highway that crosses the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit in the US state of Michigan.It runs between Howell at Interstate 96 (I-96) and I-94 on the Chesterfield–Harrison township line near the Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
It was the first hospital in Southeast Michigan to open in 20 years. [1] The hospital was established due to population growth in western Oakland County. A previous branch campus of the main Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, with 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2) of space was to be expanded to 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2). [2]