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New Center, Detroit

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The New Center is a commercial district of Detroit, Michigan located approximately three miles (4.8 km) north of the city's downtown, and one mile (1.6 km) north of the Cultural Center, around the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard (which is sometimes referred to as The Boulevard). Developed in the 1920s, it was designed to create a business hub that would offer convenient access to both downtown resources and outlying factories. Some historians believe that the New Center may be the original edge city - a sub-center remote from but related to an urban core. From 1923 to 1996, General Motors maintained its world headquarters in the New Center (in what is now Cadillac Place) before relocating downtown to the Renaissance Center. Cadillac Place is now occupied by State of Michigan government offices.

The Comerica Tastefest, a five-day street festival held around Independence Day, takes place on the streets of New Center.

The Fisher Building, considered an Art Deco masterpiece, sits in the New Center.

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