Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R5 zoning in Cultural Center, home of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Search this neighborhoodCultural Center has about 2,600 residents. Medbury Park lies to its north, Medical Center to the south, Poletown East to the east and Wayne State to the west. East Warren Avenue, East Ferry Avenue and John R Street run through it. Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Michigan Science Center and Detroit Institute of Arts are mapped inside. Scarab Club and the Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and six locally designated historic districts are inside. Peck Park is a 2.1-acre neighborhood park.
Zoning is a mix led by Medium Density Residential (R5) and Planned Development (PD), with Public Center (PC) also present. DDOT Route 42 Mid-City Loop, DDOT Route 8 Warren, and DDOT Route 4 Woodward stop inside the neighborhood. The Warren Avenue and Ferry Street streetcar stops are also inside.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Cultural Center, 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 Cultural Center over the past year are alteration permits and change of occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Cultural Center is a mix of Medium Density Residential (R5) 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 Cultural Center 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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