Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and B5 zoning in New Center, around the Fisher Building.
Search this neighborhoodNew Center is bordered by New Center Commons to the north, Tech Town to the south, Milwaukee Junction and North End to the east and Elijah McCoy and Virginia Park Community to the west. It has about 130 residents. The Fisher Building and the General Motors Building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fisher Theater, New Center Park and the Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts are also inside, along with University Preparatory Art & Design Middle/High, a school serving grades 6 through 12. West Grand Boulevard, 2nd Avenue, Woodward Avenue, 3rd Street and the John C Lodge Freeway run through the area.
By area, Major Business (B5) covers about 71 percent of the zoned land, General Business (B4) about 20 percent and General Industrial (M3) about 9 percent. DDOT Route 16 Dexter, DDOT Route 23 Hamilton and DDOT Route 42 Mid-City Loop stop inside the neighborhood, and there are Baltimore Street and Grand Boulevard streetcar stops. Few people live inside the outline, so this page shows reported-incident counts and no per-resident rate.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for New 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 New Center over the past year are alteration permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in New Center is mostly Major Business (B5), 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 New 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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