The Old Westside, Detroit's Midwest-Tireman neighborhood, is where the city's most transformative new greenway runs right through a 100-year-old Black community that has been doing the work, telling its own story, and welcoming new neighbors for generations.
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Midwest-Tireman is a neighborhood where the housing stock reflects the area's deep history, with brick bungalows, two-flats, and craftsman homes that were built and cared for by working families. The Midwest-Tireman Neighborhood Framework Plan, developed through multiple community meetings between 2022 and 2023, identified housing stabilization as the neighborhood's top priority. To support this goal, the Equity Alliance of Michigan runs free home repair and housing counseling programs to help ensure current homeowners stay over the long-term.
Midwest-Tireman's community infrastructure is deeply organized in the way that only comes from decades of neighborhood advocacy. The Equity Alliance of Michigan runs entrepreneur bootcamps, workforce training, youth summer programs, and monthly block club coordination meetings from their Walton Street center every fourth Sunday. Nearby, Bridging Communities on McGraw provides eldercare, housing counseling, and youth leadership programs, while the Joe Louis Greenway Partnership activates the trail year-round with events, programming, and volunteer days. The Midwest-Tireman Neighborhood Framework process gave residents the opportunity to directly shape what they want their neighborhood to look like by 2033, resulting in recommendations that turned into real city policy. This is a neighborhood where showing up makes a tangible difference.
The land that became Midwest-Tireman was first settled by German, Polish, and Jewish immigrant families in the late 1800s. By 1920, African American families began arriving as part of the Great Migration north, transforming the area into one of Detroit's most vital Black communities over the next several decades. While the neighborhood weathered the deindustrialization of the 1970s and 1980s, the block clubs, churches, and community organizations that formed during those years built the civic muscle that now drives the Equity Alliance, coordinates with the city's framework plan, and authored the greenway's historical markers. The Joe Louis Greenway itself carries this neighborhood's spirit. Named after Detroit's own world champion, a man who rose to become a symbol of resilience and dignity, the trail reflects precisely what The Old Westside has embodied for a century.
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