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Originally Posted by yuriandrade

Downtown, Midtown and New Center - Detroit




---------------------------- 2020 ------ 2010 ------ 2000 ------ 1990 ---- Growth ---- Density

Downtown ------------------ 6,151 ------ 5,287 ------ 6,141 ------ 5,970 ---- 16.3% --- -13.9% ------ 2.9% ------- 3.7 km² --- 1,668.3 inh./km²

Midtown ------------------ 16,921 ----- 14,550 ----- 16,877 ----- 16,692 ---- 16.3% --- -13.8% ------ 1.1% ------- 5.4 km² --- 3,141.7 inh./km²

New Center ----------------- 6,484 ------ 5,675 ------ 7,843 ------ 8,146 ---- 14.3% --- -27.6% ----- -3.7% ------- 3.1 km² --- 2,123.8 inh./km²

Detroit ------------------- 639,111 ---- 713,956 ---- 951,232 -- 1,028,067 --- -10.5% --- -24.9% ----- -7.5% --- 359.3 km² --- 1,778.8 inh./km²

Detroit Metro Area ---- 5,325,319 -- 5,218,852 -- 5,357,538 -- 5,095,695 ----- 2.0% ---- -2.6% ------ 5.1% -- 14,983 km²


I guess I having mix feelings regarding Downtown Detroit numbers. Even though is very promising the consistent, double-digit growth all over this axis in a time the city is still bleeding (metro area is growing though), I guess I hoped for a higher number, specially for Downtown.

For this decade, everything indicates it will speed up as happened in other Downtowns.

In terms of the definition of the broader core of Detroit, I would probably include the east Riverfront which is located between the Renaissance Center and the Aretha Franklin Amphitheater. This area saw quite a bit of new housing construction between 2010 - 2020.

2011: https://goo.gl/maps/UK21edj1pJsFbAo76
2020: https://goo.gl/maps/6XdLW6zLTaiceH8Z6

Originally Posted by Crawford

Downtown Detroit has barely any new residential construction. There are some office-to-residential conversions, and some new lowrise residentials, but I don't think a highrise residential building has been built in downtown Detroit since Millender Center was built in 1985.

There was a parking tower built for the Book Cadillac Hotel and residences that has condos on the top level. But yeah, no new high rises that would substantially move the population needle downtown. Most of the growth over the next decade, should it happen, will probably materialize in Midtown, New Center, and along the east Riverfront.

Originally Posted by Crawford

Correction - believe the last of the Riverfront Towers was built in the early 1990's. Those are three subsidized towers built just west of the downtown freeway loop, but even if technically outside the loop, I think everyone would count Riverfront Towers as "downtown" even if they're detached from downtown, and not really walkable bc of the roadway infrastructure.

The Riverfront Towers are definitely "downtown". They have their own direct entrance to the Detroit People Mover station at the Joe Louis Arena site. They also have direct access to the Riverwalk.