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Area code 313 was assigned as one of the original 86 area codes in October 1947. It originally served the southeastern quadrant of Michigan, including Metro Detroit, Flint, and the southern part of The Thumb. The rest of the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula was assigned to area code 517.
Of children born to parents living in Osborn, 22.4% were born to teenage parents. 35.7% of Osborn residents are children who live in poverty, while 13.9% of all Michigan residents are children in poverty. A 2010 report from Data Driven Detroit, City Connect Detroit, stated that Osborn had 27,166 residents.
Southwest Detroit is a neighborhood within Detroit. Clark Park is a popular park within the Hubbard Farms area of southwest Detroit (not to be confused with the similarly named Clark Park in Philadelphia). It is also well known for Mexicantown, Detroit's vibrant Mexican community.
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the northwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
Lafayette Park is a neighborhood located east of Downtown Detroit.It contains a residential area of some 4,900 people and covers 0.37 sq mi. The northern section, planned and partially built in the 1950s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places; [1] it was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2015.
Little Caesars Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Midtown Detroit.Opening on September 5, 2017, the arena, which cost $862.9 million to construct, replaced Joe Louis Arena and The Palace of Auburn Hills as the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), respectively.
After problems had occurred in the buildings from the illegal drug trade in the early 1980s, the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) applied for HOPE VI funds under the 1996 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), it intended to reduce the number of public housing units from 1,573 to 672.
At a total area of 97,990 square miles (253,800 km 2) – including those territorial waters – Michigan is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, and the eleventh largest state overall. More than half of the state's land area – 30,156 square miles (78,100 km 2) – is still forest.