Cultural enclave and neighborhoods in Wayne County, Michigan, United States

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New Center, Detroit

<p><b>New Center</b> is a <a href="/en/List_of_neighborhoods_in_Detroit" title="List of neighborhoods in Detroit" class="wl">commercial and residential district</a> located in <a href="/en/Detroit,_Michigan" title="Detroit, Michigan" class="mw-redirect wl">Detroit, Michigan</a>, adjacent to <a href="/en/Midtown_Detroit" title="Midtown Detroit" class="wl">Midtown</a>, one mile (1.6<span>&nbsp;</span>km) north of the <a href="/en/Cultural_Center_Historic_District_(Detroit)" title="Cultural Center Historic District (Detroit)" class="wl">Cultural Center</a>, and approximately three miles (5<span>&nbsp;</span>km) north of <a href="/en/Downtown_Detroit" title="Downtown Detroit" class="wl">Downtown</a>. The area is centered just west of the intersection of <a href="/en/M-1_(Michigan_highway)" title="M-1 (Michigan highway)" class="wl">Woodward Avenue</a> and <a href="/en/Grand_Boulevard_(Detroit)" title="Grand Boulevard (Detroit)" class="wl">Grand Boulevard</a>, and is bounded by, and includes the <a href="/en/Virginia_Park_Historic_District" title="Virginia Park Historic District" class="wl">Virginia Park Historic District</a> on the north, the <a href="/en/Edsel_Ford_Freeway" title="Edsel Ford Freeway" class="mw-redirect wl">Edsel Ford Freeway</a> (I-94) on the south, <a href="/en/John_R._Williams" title="John R. Williams" class="wl">John R Street</a> on the east and the <a href="/en/M-10_(Michigan_highway)" title="M-10 (Michigan highway)" class="wl">Lodge Freeway</a> on the west.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-nc_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-nc-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> New Center, and the surrounding areas north of I-94, are sometimes seen as coterminous with the <a href="/en/North_End,_Detroit" title="North End, Detroit" class="wl">North End</a>, while in fact separate districts.</p>

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The National Historic Landmarks Cadillac Place (left) and the Fisher Building in the background, with the Hotel St. Regis on the right" data-hash="File:GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Grand Boulevard looking west through New Center. The National Historic Landmarks Cadillac Place (left) and the Fisher Building in the background, with the Hotel St. Regis on the right" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg/250px-GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="2450" data-file-height="1944" data-file-type="bitmap" height="198" width="250" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg/375px-GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg/500px-GrandBoulevardNewCenterDetroit.jpg 2x"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Grand Boulevard looking west through New Center. The National Historic Landmarks <a href="/en/Cadillac_Place" title="Cadillac Place" class="wl">Cadillac Place</a> (left) and the <a href="/en/Fisher_Building" title="Fisher Building" class="wl">Fisher Building</a> in the background, with the <a href="/en/Hotel_St._Regis,_Detroit" title="Hotel St. Regis, Detroit" class="wl">Hotel St. Regis</a> on the right</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states" class="wl">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" data-file-type="drawing" height="12" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span>&nbsp;</span></span>United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/U.S._state" title="U.S. state" class="wl">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_Michigan.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="457" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 2x"></span></span><span>&nbsp;</span></span><a href="/en/Michigan" title="Michigan" class="wl">Michigan</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/List_of_counties_in_Michigan" title="List of counties in Michigan" class="wl">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png/23px-Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="2636" data-file-height="1499" data-file-type="bitmap" height="13" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png/35px-Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png/46px-Flag_of_Wayne_County%2C_Michigan.png 2x"></span></span></span> <a href="/en/Wayne_County,_Michigan" title="Wayne County, Michigan" class="wl">Wayne</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/List_of_cities_in_Michigan" title="List of cities in Michigan" class="mw-redirect wl">City</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border"><span><img loading="lazy" alt="Flag_of_Detroit.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Detroit.svg/23px-Flag_of_Detroit.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" data-file-type="drawing" height="14" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Detroit.svg/35px-Flag_of_Detroit.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Detroit.svg/46px-Flag_of_Detroit.svg.png 2x"></span></span></span> <a href="/en/Detroit" title="Detroit" class="wl">Detroit</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Time_zone" title="Time zone" class="wl">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC-5" title="UTC-5" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC-5</a> (<a href="/en/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone" class="wl">Eastern Standard Time (North America)</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Summer (<a href="/en/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time" class="wl">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC-4" title="UTC-4" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC-4</a> (<a href="/en/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone" class="wl">Eastern Daylight Time (North America)</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>

<p>The heart of New Center was developed in the 1920s as a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying factories. Some historians believe that New Center may be the original <a href="/en/Edge_city" title="Edge city" class="wl">edge city</a><span>—</span>a sub-center remote from, but related to, a main urban core.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-nc_1-1"><a href="#cite_note-nc-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> The descriptor "New Center" derived its name from the <i>New Center News</i>, an automotive-focused free newspaper begun in 1933 that continues to operate under the name <i>Detroit Auto Scene</i>. From 1923 to 1996, <a href="/en/General_Motors" title="General Motors" class="wl">General Motors</a> maintained its world headquarters in New Center (in what is now <a href="/en/Cadillac_Place" title="Cadillac Place" class="wl">Cadillac Place</a>) before relocating downtown to the <a href="/en/Renaissance_Center" title="Renaissance Center" class="wl">Renaissance Center</a>; before becoming a division of GM, Fisher Body was headquartered in the <a href="/en/Fisher_Building" title="Fisher Building" class="wl">Fisher Building</a>. Both Cadillac Place and the Fisher Building are <a href="/en/List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_Michigan" title="List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan" class="wl">National Historic Landmarks</a>. In addition to the government and commercial offices along Woodward and Grand Boulevard, New Center contains the Fisher Theatre, the <a href="/en/Boutique_hotel" title="Boutique hotel" class="wl">Hotel</a> <a href="/en/Hotel_St._Regis,_Detroit" title="Hotel St. Regis, Detroit" class="wl">St. Regis</a>, the <a href="/en/Henry_Ford_Hospital" title="Henry Ford Hospital" class="wl">Henry Ford Hospital</a>, restaurants, and residential areas.</p>



New Center is a commercial and residential district located in Detroit, Michigan, adjacent to Midtown, one mile north of the Cultural Center, and approximately three miles north of Downtown. The area is centered just west of the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard, and is bounded by, and includes the Virginia Park Historic District on the north, the Edsel Ford Freeway on the south, John R Street on the east and the Lodge Freeway on the west. New Center, and the surrounding areas north of I-94, are sometimes seen as coterminous with the North End, while in fact separate districts. The heart of New Center was developed in the 1920s as a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying factories. Some historians believe that New Center may be the original edge city—a sub-center remote from, but related to, a main urban core. The descriptor "New Center" derived its name from the New Center News, an automotive-focused free newspaper begun in 1933 that continues to operate under the name Detroit Auto Scene. From 1923 to 1996, General Motors maintained its world headquarters in New Center before relocating downtown to the Renaissance Center; before becoming a division of GM, Fisher Body was headquartered in the Fisher Building. Both Cadillac Place and the Fisher Building are National Historic Landmarks. In addition to the government and commercial offices along Woodward and Grand Boulevard, New Center contains the Fisher Theatre, the Hotel St. Regis, the Henry Ford Hospital, restaurants, and residential areas. 