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Originally Posted by hudkina
BTW, Lathrup Village which is a city within Southfield and directly north and east of this development has a median family income of $93,000. Beverly Hills which is less than 2 miles north of this development has a median family income of $116,000. There are eight Census Tracts in Southfield north of 10 Mile and west of Lahser. Of those, three have median family incomes of more than $85,000. Those are north and west of this development. Three have median family incomes between $60,000 and $70,000. Two have median family incomes of $50,000.
Again, even if areas of Southfield are becoming Section 8 dumping grounds, the areas surrounding this development are still well above average when it comes to income, and despite what many think, these neighborhoods aren't losing ground. Lathrup Village will always be an upper-middle class city, and many of the Southfield neighborhoods around it will be as well.
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None of the areas you're describing have Section 8 apartments. These are different communities, and not really relevant to whether such a development would work.
Beverly Hills will not utilize a Southfield "downtown". There are major demographic differences between the cities, and Beverly Hills is essentially an extension of Birmingham. The far-north part of Southfield is Birmingham schools and not really part of the potential target market either.
A good illustration of why this wouldn't work is the Southfield library. Southfield's library is fantastic and possibly the best in Michigan. Yet when Beverly Hills lost its contract with Birmingham library (which is terrible), the city negotiated an agreement with Southfield library, yet no one visited the library. The city then cancelled the agreement and just had no library whatsoever before again coming to agreement with Birmingham.
I think it's class moreso than race, but you aren't going to get that wealth belt in mid Oakland County (Bloomfield, Birmingham, Franklin, Beverly Hills, etc.) to utilize a Southfield mixed-use development. Your target market would be Southfield and NW Detroit.