- Detroit — “Detroit has a Chinatown?” is a response I’ve received ubiquitously this week while searching for anything or anyone with information on this small remnant of Detroit’s past.
I was confronted with a sad truth: Chinatown is actually a ghost town...
Standing alone on the northeast corner of Cass and Peteboro is the lone sign post that signifies in sad silence a slight hint that this is an area with Chinese-American history.
Yet, this lonely side street was the focus of an urban renewal initiative announced last year by a nonprofit Midtown Detroit Inc. and funded with $1 million of taxpayer money...
Standing alone on the northeast corner of Cass and Peteboro is the lone sign post that signifies in sad silence a slight hint that this is an area with Chinese-American history.
Yet, this lonely side street was the focus of an urban renewal initiative announced last year by a nonprofit Midtown Detroit Inc. and funded with $1 million of taxpayer money...
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