Lower Midtown

Once vibrant, Midtown's residential neighborhoods between Mack Avenue-Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the Fisher Freeway have been in decline, and whole communities are desolate, empty spaces. This is poignantly true of Brush Park, and its subdivion, Woodward East. A 24 block area east of Woodward Avenue, the neighborhood was once an oasis of grand homes aimed at the city's elite. Woodward East is particularly known for the high Victorian style residences constructed for Detroit's wealthiest citizens, but of the 300 homes that once lined these streets, fewer than half remain, and many of those are damaged. Some have gaping holes in their roofs, the timbers blackened by fire, while many others are simply crumbling in on themselves, highlighting the dilapidation and decay endured by the Detroit neighbourhood once known as the "Little Paris of the Midwest".

To the west of Woodward Avenue is Cass Park. This historic district surrounds Cass Park itself, and contains over 20 buildings including apartments, a hotel, the Detroit Masonic Temple, the S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, and Cass Technical High School. Between Cass Park and Brush Park, just to the west of Woodward Avenue is a no man's land where the boarded up Eddystone Hotel and the old Harbor Light Center offers anything but light.