economy
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Griswold Street: The Wall Street of Detroit
Griswold Street: The Wall Street of Detroit How a single downtown street became the financial engine of a Midwest industrial capital, and one of the finest collections of early American skyscrapers. Walk down Griswold Street in downtown Detroit today, and you pass beneath a wall of early twentieth-century skyscrapers, terra cotta cornices, arched windows, and…
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The Hidden History of Black Bottom
The Hidden History of Black Bottom Long before it became synonymous with Detroit’s Black community, Black Bottom is believed to have gotten its name from French colonial farmers, who used the term to describe the area’s rich, dark soil along the Detroit River. By the 20th century, the name had taken on new meaning, attached…