It is pretty close to University of Detroit-Mercy. It just needs to be a good place to live with amenities within the neighborhood and easy access to other areas of the city by way of transit. I don't think it necessarily needs an anchor. Dexter/Davison would need something like this to draw residents. Midtown has the museums and educational institutions to keep it relevant. There needs to be some type of "anchor" though.
Additionally, new apartments, lofts, condos, and houses could be built. If a revitalization occurs I would love to see some renovations. Many of the apartments are outdated and no longer desirable places to live. The area can be revitalized, but I don't see it happening unless our local economy turns around. The bus stops were well placed and very accessible.
It had a good mix of apartments, single family homes, and storefronts. What I like about this area as opposed to other parts of the city is its organization. Soul Brothers Eatery is doing well, and we've seen homes for sale go quickly to new owners just as fast as they come on the market. The Food Farm grocery store on the corner of Lawrence and Dexter has a new owner, I'm told, and should be opening sometime this year. We've recently re-energized our block club/neighborhood association to target what we can do about addressing specific concerns, particularly the empty apartment buildings, potholes and getting more stop signs on the side streets.
As I've said on this board before, while we're far from being a Midtown-type neighborhood, we still have churches, schools, some urban gardens and a few businesses in the area and shouldn't be lumped in with the East Robinwoods and other bombed-out areas of the city. My part of the neighborhood is all single-family: Very well occupied, mostly homeowners with some renters scattered in between. Our biggest problem are the empty apartment buildings. Go over one street, and you'll see two-family homes falling down and boarded up. Some of the two-family streets are still well-occupied. As a current resident, the entire area should be treated - much like Detroit itself - as a street-by-street, almost block-by-block case. I grew up in Russell Woods and currently live on the other side of Dexter near Central High.
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