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Showing posts with label Chandler Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chandler Park. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2008

Eastside Detroit: Morningside Commons And East Morningside

Located on Alter, Wayburn, and Maryland Streets between East Warren and Mack, the Morningside Commons represents a neighborhood fairly rare with the Detroit city limits: new housing stock! The Morningside Commons and Morningside Neighborhoods include approximately 4,900 households.





Offering both new homes for purchase as well as new construction townhomes for rent in Phase II, Morningside Commons is a result of the very successful U-Snap-Bac Non-Profit Housing Corporation (United Streets Networking And Planning Building A Community).

Since 1985 U-SNAP-BAC has offered a diverse set of services, including: home improvements for low income home owners, rehabs of vacant homes, new housing development, home ownership training. Especially since the recent "mortgage meltdown", the credit counseling sessions and foreclosure prevention workshops have been very timely.

The East Morningside area is an older, solid neighborhood composed of beautiful homes in the Colonial, Cape Cod, and Tudor styles. Morningside Commons is the success story of the West Morningside area.

In addition to proximity to Chandler Park, Morningside Commons has its own Community Park.

A mixture of the old and the new; rebuild and rehab. This is how it's done in the "D"!


For information about residential homes for sale or lease, contact U-SNAP-BAC at 313.640.1100 during regular business hours; or email the office.

Further information about these Eastside Detroit Neighborhoods can be found at the website of the East Warren Business Association or EWABA.


All Photographs Copyright: Dave Krieger

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Riding Your Bike in Detroit? Have Your License?



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Now playing: The Caravans - The Lord Will Make A Way
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Just as we start thinking about hauling our bikes out of the garage to save money on gasoline like our Governor who has started "biking to work", the City has reminded us that we need a license for our bikes!

Detroit's bicycle license ordinance states:
"It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets or sidewalks of the city without first obtaining a license therefore from the city."

The ordinance has been in place since 1964; but the Detroit Police are going to start to actually enforce the ordinance again. They say it is to help locate/recover stolen bicycles, but if you're caught without a license starting on August 7 2008, you'll get hit with a $55.00 fine!

The cost is actually minimal: $5.00 for a 5-year license; it's just something else to add to your "to-do" list! (I wonder if next they'll pass a "no talking on your cell with biking" law!)

The licenses can be obtained at any of the six Detroit Police Districts between 9 am and 5 pm Monday - Friday. For further information, you can call the Detroit Police Office of Public Information: 313.596.2200.

Once you get that license, though, you can enjoy riding along the Detroit Riverwalk and around Belle Isle...the beauty and serenity will be worth it...not to mention great exercise! Also explore Campus Martius, Palmer Park, and Chandler Park (Chandler Park is part of the Wayne County Parks and Recreation System)...let me know in the comments section about other great places to ride your bike in Detroit!

Also check out "Detroit Bikes", a group that promotes group riding tours around Detroit.

Happy Riding!