Is Redford a good neighborhood in Detroit? (Royal Oak, Ferndale: apartments, city hall)

[theasker379]

I am looking for a neighborhood with a good nightlife, good amenities, and a quaint downtown. Is Old Redford a great place to live for yuppies, hipsters, etc.?

[MS313]

I'll use the intersection of the theater and old high school (now Meijer) as a reference point. North is fine, seems pretty quiet when I'm around there, east by Rosedale Park is good, south on Lasher towards Brightmoor, nope! hell no! bottom of the barrel even for Detroit standards.
If you want more "downtown" living. You may want to look more towards an actual downtown. That area is a 20 minute drive to downtown Detroit and that's using the freeway.

[zthatzmanz28]

Not an exciting place for yuppies.

[MonsterintheMirror]

Used to be a nice neighborhood back in the day. Lots of cops and firemen lived there, however judging by streetnew it got "Coleman Young'd" as they say lol. I don't know what your idea of exciting is but if you're into hard drugs brightmoor is the place to be!

Move to Royal Oak or Ferndale for exciting.

[gameguy56]

Not really a yuppie place at all.

If you're a married hipster couple in your mid 30s-40s maybe. But all the exciting stuff is closer to downtown.

[usroute10]

In any other city in America, Old Redford would have been revitalized into a Ferndale-type neighborhood.

It had all the amenities of a small-town -
-a large commercial district that extended into several sidestreets
-housing stock ranging from the 1900's to the 1950's on tree-lined streets
-a library
-a recreation center
-a post office
-a good-sized park with huge mature trees and a hill
-a police station
-a fire station
-a high school
-an elementary school
-a public golf course
-a YMCA
-several churches and a synagogue
-a city hall (zoom into the 2-story building and you will see "REDFORD VILLAGE HALL")

I believe Old Redford really could have been a destination for young hipster families in Southeast Michigan

Unfortunately, the high school, elementary school, police station, and several buildings in the commercial district have been torn down in the past 10 days, and the YMCA became a charter school. A much-needed Meijer's replaced the high school, but the neighborhood's potential for revitalization by young adults seeking an urban/suburban lifestyle is probably gone with the Meijer's and the big charter school that closed a whole side street that contained storefronts and 50's era apartments.

A neighborhood way outside of downtown that is showing signs of life is the 7 Mile/Livernois commercial strip. I saw a couple new restaurants open there when I drove through a couple of days ago. And you know the housing in that area is top notch.

[usroute10]

The signature building that anchored the intersection of Lahser and Grand River was burned to the ground in 2006. What a handsome building. I am still mad that it was torched.

[lucky2balive]

Start at the very south/west corner...the further north/east you go the worse it gets
you do NOT want to go east of beech or north of Plymouth, as it slowly becomes Detroit basically

[Bhaalspawn]

Originally Posted by theasker379

I am looking for a neighborhood with a good nightlife, good amenities, and a quaint downtown. Is Old Redford a great place to live for yuppies, hipsters, etc.?

Definitely not. Last I checked, Redford was a lower-income mostly white neighborhood. It's definitely not for yuppies and hipsters.

[theasker379]

Old Redford is a union man's town! All other neighborhoods mentioned are capitalistic monstrosities which don't have the charm and soul of Old Redford. P.S. The Redford Theater is a one-of-a-kind theater which makes this neighborhood automatically trendy.