New Center
The New Center area is a mixed use commercial and residential district adjacent to Midtown and located one mile north of the cultural center, and three miles north of Downtown. It was designed to create a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying areas, The district is centered just west of the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard, bounded by the Woodward-Grand Boulevard intersection, Virginia Park Historic District, Edsel Ford Freeway, John C. Lodge Freeway. While sections of Midtown have the appearance of a ghost town, New Center is thriving.
Cadillac Place, a National Historic Landmark and originally the world headquarters of General Motors, is now occupied by the State of Michigan government offices. The Detroit St. Regis Hotel is directly across from there. The Fisher Building, a National Historic Landmark, is considered an Art Deco masterpiece, and also sits in the New Center. It contains the elaborate 2,089 seat Fisher Theatre and is also the location of the headquarters for the Detroit Public Schools.
- Alley
- Fisher Building
