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The Detroit Downtown Trolley (originally the Detroit Citizens' Railway) was a heritage trolley built in 1976 as a U.S. Bicentennial project. [33] The trolley ran over a one-mile L-shaped route from Grand Circus Park to near the Renaissance Center, via Washington Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue, using narrow-gauge trams acquired from municipal ...
The QLine, built in the mid-2010s, is a 3.3-mile (5.3 km) electric streetcar which runs from downtown Detroit to Midtown and New Center, following Woodward Avenue for its entire length, and stopping at twelve stations. It connects downtown with Little Caesars Arena, Wayne State University, numerous museums, and the city's Amtrak station.
As of the 2000 census, [8] there were 93 people, 37 households, and 21 families residing in the village. The population density was 388.7 inhabitants per square mile (150.1/km 2).
The elegant 19-story David Whitney Building, 1 Park Ave. near Grand Circus Park, dates to 1915 and had been empty for nearly 15 years before it underwent an extensive rehab and reopened in 2014 as ...
The NFL draft in Detroit set a record for attendance, with more than 775,000 people inside the draft's downtown Detroit footprint from Thursday through Saturday, officials said.
The downtown area features high-rise residential living along with a number of parks including those linked by a promenade along the International Riverfront. Downtown Detroit was named among the best big city neighborhoods in which to retire by CNN Money Magazine editors. [2] The Detroit Opera House is located at Broadway and Grand Circus.
Modernism started slow in Detroit, but now modern buildings are proliferating.
Stands at the location of Detroit's first skyscraper, the Hammond Building: West Fort Street: 719 Griswold Street Dime Building: Office building 1923 Neo-classical: 23 777 Woodward Avenue One Kennedy Square: Office building 2006 modern architecture: 10 Detroit's newest high-rise building West Lafayette Street: 751 Griswold Street The Olde Building