City Analysis
City and Neighborhood Analysis Introduction
The purpose of this analysis is to review historic and projected economic and demographic data to determine whether the City of St. Johns and the subject neighborhood will experience future economic stability, or decline.
City of St. Johns Map
Physical and Location Description
Clinton County is located in the geographic center of Michigan just 10 miles north of Lansing, the state capital. The County is named after a former Governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton, and DeWitt is another city in Clinton County. Clinton County has a total area of 575 square miles, of which 572 square miles is land and 3 square miles is water. The southern portion of the county includes the cities
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The city is also a member of a local ambulance authority that provides medical services to the city and surrounding townships. The city’s Department of Public Works is responsible for snow removal, debris pickup, and road maintenance. Other basic services provided to the subject’s neighborhood include water, sewer, gas, electric, and …show more content…
Johns to be 7,865 which is a 5.08% increase from 2000. There are approximately 3,451 housing units. The 2009-2013 percentages of people below the poverty rate are estimated to be 15.1% which is less than the state average of 16.8%. Approximately 52.0% of the population are between the ages of 18 and 65, which would be the primary work force. As for the population above age 25, over 90% have a high school diploma and over 20% have a college degree. The average residential home price in 2010 was $119,200.
Public transportation exists in many forms in St. Johns and Mid-Michigan. Lansing Capital Region International Airport is located in DeWitt Township, which is a 30-minute drive away. Flint’s Bishop Airport is within an hour drive of St. Johns. Clinton Transit provides bus service to most of Clinton County, including St. Johns. Amtrak provides passenger train service through a station in East Lansing, Michigan. CN North America and CSX Transportation also provide freight rail service throughout most of Michigan and connect to Ohio and
Chicago in the 1920s was a turning point for the development of ethnic neighborhoods. After the opening of the first rail connection from New York to Chicago in the 1840s, immigration sky rocketed from that point on. Majority of the immigrants to Chicago were Europeans. The Irish, Italians, eastern European Jews, Germans, and Mexicans were among the most common ethnicities to reside in Chicago. These groups made up the greater part of Chicago. The sudden increase in immigration to Chicago in the 1920s soon led to an even further distinguished separation of ethnicities in neighborhoods. The overall development of these neighborhoods deeply impacted how Chicago is sectioned off nowadays. Without these ethnicities immigrating to Chicago almost 100 years ago, Chicago neighborhoods would not be as culturally defined and shaped as they are today.
In today’s society, American citizens tend to believe that America has been, “American” since the day that Christopher Columbus set foot in the Bahamas. This is a myth that has been in our society for a multitude of years now. In A New England Town by Kenneth A. Lockridge, he proves that America was not always democratic. Additionally, he proves that America has not always been “American”, by presenting the town of Dedham in 1635. Lockridge presents this town through the course of over one hundred years, in that time many changes happened as it made its way to a type of democracy.
The bridge was designed by the Great Engineer David B. Steinman. (Mackinac Bridge 1). The Mackinac Bridge was built across the straits which is an important water route between Lake Michigan and the Atlantic Ocean. The straits connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. (World Book 24). The Mackinac Bridge connects the Upper
The fourth chapter of City Politics by Dennis R. Judd & Todd Swanstrom covers the rise of "Reform Politics" with many local governments during the first half of the 1900s as a way to combat the entrenched political machines that took control of many large city governments in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Over the course of the chapter, Judd & Swanstrom quickly cover the history of the "reform movement" with different examples of how the reform movement affected city politics in different areas.
The Great Lakes Global Freight Gateway (GLGFG) Project is an initiative that seeks to transform the Southeastern Michigan and Southwestern Ontario region into a multimodal transshipment hub. This hub will be where goods are moved through the Port of Halifax, loaded on the new Maersk Triple-E container ships, and shipped to worldwide markets. The Port of Halifax is currently the only deep-water port that can accommodate these post-panamax container ships. These Triple-E ships can move up to 18,000 containers and, due to the economies of scale, reduce the shipping cost per container; thereby reducing cost to manufactures (GLFGr4, pg. 4). Detroit is currently the best-situated city for repositioning its main economic engine to transcontinental shipping. The location on an international border and the system of rail lines and roadways in the region, are the assets that make this opportunity possible. That is the broad view of the project, but many people want to know a more narrow scope of the project. They want to know the local impact of the project. This essay will address the local angle by illustrating how the decline of the automobile industry has placed this region in a position for revival as a transshipment hub. Also, this essay will illustrate how economic activity from The Great Lakes Global Freight Gateway Project can regenerate local real estate markets.
The Place Isabella county is in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Isabella county is founded on February 11, 1859 the state legislature organized Isabella county. The place Isabella county located in E. Preston St. Mt. Pleasant, Michigan-48858. The county area 578 sq miles and 5 sq miles of water. It was the part of Indian’s winter hunting grounds called “Ojibiway Besse” the place of Chippewa. Indians have traveled 10,000 years. Europeans having the recent history, Indians almost past 200 years before Europeans returned to Central Michigan. This county is populated by Hispanic, Non-Hispanic white, African-American, American Indian, However, Non-Hispanic white are populated more compare to another race. Mount pleasant having
By the 1840’s The Old Grand River Indian trail was but a muddy, mucky pair of ruts that was often impassable for months out of the year. In the late 1840’s wooden plank roads were appearing in the U.S. and the General Plank Road Act of 1850 allowed private enterprises in Michigan to build plank roads provided they held to certain specifications. Roads were 16 feet wide of inch thick oak or pine with mandatory drainage ditches to each side. 1851 saw the incorporation of the Detroit-Howell plank road company which included such Detroit notables as James Couzens and Lewis Cass amongst its investors. The new 50 mile turnpike to Howell would later be connected to the Capital via the Howell-Lansing Plank road in 1852. Tollbooths were installed at intervals of every 5 miles along the oak planks and often lodging and taverns sprang up at these locations. Note: (The Grand River and Joy Road intersection is exactly 5 miles Northwest of Woodward.) Tolls collected at these locations were xx $ per mile and interestingly many hamlets sprung up around these predecessors to the on-ramp. Some of these towns still survive today as suburbs and cosmopolitan municipalities. Towns like Redford, Farmington, Novi, Howell and Brighton all were stops along the Detroit – Howell – Lansing plank pikes. Today one coach stop, the Botsford Inn in Livonia at Grand River and Mi...
Penticton is a picturesque, small city located in the Okanagan and is home to some of the province’s most stunning freshwater beaches. The city enjoys a mild climate and hot summers, which makes it an attractive place to call home and a tourist hotspot in the summers. To gain a better understanding of the makeup of this wonderful city, here is a brief overview of the demographics of Penticton.
Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist known presently for his solo work and previously as the guitarist for legendary trumpeter Miles Davis in the early 1980s. Much of Stern’s compositions and improvisations incorporate a variety of musical styles including rock, blues and jazz traditions. Big Neighborhood is Stern’s 14th solo album released in 2009. The album is recognized for its eclectic musical styles and guest artist collaborations. As one reviewer states, “Big Neighborhood’s styles range from blazing jazz-fusion to African tinged exotica and trippy Middle Eastern journeys.” (Widran, 2009). Both reviews incorporate Stern’s diverse musical content and guest artists as the focus for their arguments.
Michigan is the only state in the union composed to two separated peninsulas. At the closest point, the upper and lower peninsulas are a mere five miles apart. In the early twentieth century, the only way to make the trip across the five miles of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron was to take a boat ride from one side to the other. As businesses expanded and industry grew, the demand to cross the lakes for travel and commerce purposes grew. The only way to cross the lake was by means of a ferry service, which was unable to keep up with consumer demand. Michigan residents were unable to get convenient and frequent transport between the peninsulas. They needed a consistent, fast, and safe way to travel freely from the mainland to the upper-peninsula. In response, the construction of a five-mile-long suspension bridge to link the peninsulas was set into action. The construction of the Mackinac Bridge was greatly significant to the national economy, the field of engineering, the efficiency of travel, and the historic symbolism of the state of Michigan.
Furthermore, he attempts to dispel the negative aspects of gentrification by pointing out how some of them are nonexistent. To accomplish this, Turman exemplifies how gentrification could positively impact neighborhoods like Third Ward (a ‘dangerous’ neighborhood in Houston, Texas). Throughout the article, Turman provides copious examples of how gentrification can positively change urban communities, expressing that “gentrification can produce desirable effects upon a community such as a reduced crime rate, investment in the infrastructure of an area and increased economic activity in neighborhoods which gentrify”. Furthermore, he opportunistically uses the Third Ward as an example, which he describes as “the 15th most dangerous neighborhood in the country” and “synonymous with crime”, as an example of an area that could “need the change that gentrification provides”.
According to the recent reports, there have been some improvements in the national housing market this year. The average sale price for existing homes in June 2012 showed an increase of 7.9% when compared to the last year according to the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) reported that The median home sale price in York County for August was $142,000 down from $142,500 in 2011 according to a report by The REALTORS Association of York and Adams Counties (RAYAC) . There were around 349 properties sold in August 2012 compared to 322-sold last year. In August 2012, Adams County’s median home sale price was $162,000 with a total of 73 properties sold compared to 2011 when the median home sale price was $163,000 and 58 properties sold according to the report by RAYAC
My ideal sustainable neighborhood would be located on a large body of water and be seasonable. However, winter would be very short if at all. It would be planned so that the routes for waste were moving out of the urbanized area if not recyclable and utilized for some energy utilizing technology in the direction that is both away from the water and towards the sunset. That leaves the direction that sun rises and nearer the water open to responsible agriculture, which means no pesticides and no fertilizer runoff. There would be a central urbanized area with a farm market stores, schools, hospital, other public services, and restaurants/entertainment venue. The waterfront would be the main focus of public recreation space, except for the small communal patches that one per square mile dispersed throughout the urbanized area so that you are never too far from some patch of nature as the area expands or your income does not allow you to live next to the water. The waterfront recreational area also is designed so that the wealthy cannot dominate it and exclude others access.
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