Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Core City.
Search this neighborhoodCore City has Woodbridge to the north, North Corktown to the south, Woodbridge and North Corktown to the east and Chadsey Condon to the west. It holds the University of Detroit Mercy Corktown Campus and a locally designated historic district centered on the Fourteenth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church building. Ewald Park is a 1.1-acre neighborhood park and Vermont-Alexandrine Park a 0.2-acre mini park. Maybury Grand Street, Buchanan Street and 14th Street run through it.
Zoning is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) at 42 percent, Planned Development (PD) at 16 percent, General Business (B4) at 12 percent and Special Development, Mixed-Use (SD2) at 10 percent. DDOT Route 3 Grand River, DDOT Route 18 Fenkell, DDOT Route 8 Warren and DDOT Route 47 Tireman stop inside the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Core City, counted by the neighborhood the department tags each report with. The feed leaves out hit-and-run traffic accidents, runaway and found-property records, recovered-vehicle records and unfounded cases, and reports taken by the Hamtramck, Highland Park, Dearborn and Grosse Pointe police departments are not in it. CivicScout does not have traffic crash data for Detroit.
View safety data →The most common permit types issued in Core City over the past year are alteration permits and new-construction permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Core City is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Planned Development (PD), by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Core City address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, food inspections, parks and zoning within a half mile. Police incidents and permits on the neighborhood page follow the official neighborhood outline; the other layers use the area around the neighborhood center.
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