Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and B5 zoning in Downtown, Hart Plaza, a 13.7-acre riverfront park.
Search this neighborhoodDowntown has Midtown and Greektown to the north, Lafayette Park and Rivertown to the east, Corktown and West Side Industrial to the west, and the Detroit River to the south. Hart Plaza is a 13.7-acre riverfront park, and Grand Circus Park is a 4.1-acre neighborhood park. The Downtown Library, the Guardian Building, the Fox Theatre and the Bagley Memorial Fountain are inside it. Woodward Avenue, East Jefferson Avenue and Gratiot Avenue cross the area.
Zoning is a mix of Major Business (B5) at 41 percent, Planned Development (PD) at 17 percent, Restricted Central Business (PCA) at 12 percent and General Business (B4) at 12 percent. DDOT Route 6 Gratiot, DDOT Route 3 Grand River, DDOT Route 40 Russell and DDOT Route 9 Jefferson stop inside, and there are streetcar stops at Campus Martius, Congress Street and Grand Circus Park.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Downtown, 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 Downtown 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 Downtown is a mix of Major Business (B5) 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 Downtown 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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