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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.
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.
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park.. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the ...
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.
An area with significant history related to the automobile industry, east of the New Center area, it is near the railroad junction of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad lines. One of the largest collections of early 20th century industrial architecture in North America, and the birthplace of the Model T.
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 ...
In 2020, work began on the final link of the St. Joseph Valley Parkway to connect the US 31 freeway to I-94 east of Benton Harbor. The project cost $121.5 million dollars and involved relocating the interchange with the eastern terminus of BL I-94 and reconstructing 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of I-94 in the area. [ 89 ]
Map of the pre-statehood Indian trails. The first major overland transportation corridors in the future state of Michigan were the Indian trails. [9] Two of these trails are relevant to US 12. The St. Joseph Trail ran between the Benton Harbor–St. Joseph area and Detroit by way of what is now Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, and Ann Arbor.