Positive news for several neighborhoods

An article in this morning's Free Press titled Detroit's profile grows as investors, young professionals return to city discusses the steadily increasing interest and development in neighborhoods like Woodbridge and Midtown. The article includes the story of two friends who left their jobs in New York and Washington, D.C., to move to Midtown after vacationing in Detroit on a whim and finding that the city was more than the decaying, feral wasteland portrayed in the media. The founder of a real estate firm called City Living Detroit says that the housing market in these neighborhoods is doing very well in spite of the generally stagnant American real estate market. At least seven major housing developments and renovations are being planned to meet the demand.

And Corktown seems to be headed in the same direction. An article on Model D a few weeks ago talked about several restaurants planned to open in 2011 along Michigan Avenue and in the space where Bailie Corcaigh used to sit at the corner of Trumbull and Bagley. Sadly (for me), Mudgie's is moving downtown, where it will probably be much harder to find parking.