Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Elijah McCoy, home of the Motown Museum.
Search this neighborhoodElijah McCoy is home to roughly 1,300 residents. Virginia Park Community and LaSalle Gardens lie to its north, Woodbridge and Wayne State to the south, Tech Town and New Center to the east, and NW Goldberg to the west. Elijah McCoy is crossed by Rosa Parks Boulevard, 14th Street and West Grand Boulevard. Crescent Brass and Pin Company Building, Warren Motor Car Company Building and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Detroit Warehouse are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and three locally designated historic districts are inside. Motown Museum, Lincoln Factory and Commonwealth-Marquette Park are mapped inside.
Zoning is a mix led by Two-Family Residential (R2) and Restricted Industrial (M2), with Intensive Industrial (M4) also present. Inside Elijah McCoy, riders can board DDOT Route 29 Linwood, DDOT Route 16 Dexter, and DDOT Route 18 Fenkell.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Elijah McCoy, 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 Elijah McCoy over the past year are alteration permits and add additional occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Elijah McCoy is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Restricted Industrial (M2), 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 Elijah McCoy 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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