The total length of the line would be about 8 miles, with 15 stops. One thing that I think would be a good idea would be to have a streetcar line along the McNichols/Outer Drive corridor from Woodward Ave to Old Redford. There are a ton of schools, colleges, and universities along that corridor. Granted, the McNichols corridor has a very strong educational presence. The UDM area is a quiet suburban neighborhood. Finally in terms of a vision for where UDM students could have the largest impact in living and retail presence if security was not an issue would be the Palmer Park Apartments and McNichols Woodward Corridor, it is the closet set of apartments and is very nicely located in terms of transit by car or bus. This whole Uptown area has good structure and in many ways the prices are right if the economy makes a turn for the good things could change very rapidly. It is half way between Royal Oak/Ferndale, and Midtown. However I do feel that as a resident near Palmer Park there is huge potential for the area. Until UDM takes on the neighborhood and becomes a more open campus I don't expect any major changes in the condition of Livernois as a hub for retail and bars and the like.
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However, Livernois and select residential neighborhoods think south of McNichols generally, are what truly suffered in this area.
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I would argue that in many ways large areas of residential were always stable around UDM The University District, Sherwood Forest, and the like have been stable middle class areas while much of Midtown went through a rough decline. The housing stock and physical context is completely different totally single family in the area surrounding UDM. The University District in the greatest sense of the area, all those places will never be what Midtown is.