Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Riverbend, home to the Jefferson-Chalmers Historic Business District.
Search this neighborhoodAbout 2,200 people live in Riverbend. Fox Creek lies to its north, Jefferson Chalmers to the south, Grosse Pointe Park to the east and Conner Creek Industrial to the west. Inside it are Algonquin-Goethe Park, a 2.7-acre neighborhood park, the Vanity Ballroom Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Jefferson-Chalmers Historic Business District, a locally designated historic district.
Zoning is mostly Two-Family Residential (R2), with smaller areas of Single-Family Residential (R1), General Business (B4) and Intensive Industrial (M4). DDOT Route 9 Jefferson, DDOT Route 68 Chalmers, DDOT Route 31 Mack and DDOT Route 13 Conner serve Riverbend, with stops inside its outline.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Riverbend, 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 Riverbend over the past year are alteration permits and change of use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Riverbend is mostly Two-Family Residential (R2), 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 Riverbend 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.
Search an address →Search an address in Riverbend to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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