Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and SD2 zoning in Midtown, Cass Technical High School and the Detroit Masonic Temple.
Search this neighborhoodMidtown has Wayne State and Cultural Center to the north, Downtown to the south, Medical Center and Brush Park to the east, and Jeffries and North Corktown to the west. Inside it are the Detroit Masonic Temple, Orchestra Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Little Caesars Arena and Cass Technical High School. Cass is a 4-acre neighborhood park. Cass Avenue, Woodward Avenue and John C Lodge Drive cross the area.
Zoning is a mix of Special Development, Mixed-Use (SD2) at 31 percent, General Business (B4) at 28 percent, Planned Development (PD) at 13 percent and High Density Residential (R6) at 11 percent. DDOT Route 23 Hamilton, DDOT Route 4 Woodward, DDOT Route 16 Dexter and DDOT Route 31 Mack stop inside, and there are streetcar stops at Warren Avenue, Sproat Street and Canfield Street.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Midtown, 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 Midtown 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 Midtown is a mix of Special Development, Mixed-Use (SD2) and General Business (B4), 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 Midtown 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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