Thursday, April 11, 2019

Disappearing cities of Metro Detroit: Allen Park, Michigan

It all started here.

Another project that owes its existence to the tax incentive legislation is Unity Studios in Allen Park, Mich., where a groundbreaking was held in August. These newly established studios are to be headed by Jimmy Lifton, 54, a Detroit native, who has been president of Oracle Post, a postproduction studio with California facilities in Burbank and Santa Monica, since 1981. 
He plans to convert a 104-acre site in Allen Park into a full-fledged movie studio. Of those acres, 70 are already developed, including a 600,000-square-foot office building that was formerly occupied by the Visteon Corporation, a global manufacturer of automotive parts, with Ford as its largest customer. Until early 2005, 2,200 employees worked there.

Didn't work out as planned. The dream died.

Source:  Wikipedia

Allen Park's population peaked at 40,747 in 1970. Its 2017 estimated population is 26,156 -- a drop of 13,591 (33%).



Incorporated as a village 1927 and a city in 1957, the City of Allen Park is an inner-ring, downriver suburb of Detroit, located just west of Lincoln Park. 

Disappearing cities of Metro Detroit.
Detroit.  (1/1/2019)
Ecorse.  (4/8/2019)
Hamtramck.  (4/5/2019)
Highland Park.  (4/6/2019)
Lincoln Park.  (4/10/2019)
River Rouge.  (4/7/2019)
Wyandotte.  (4/9/2019)


Disappearing cities of the Mountain State


Other disappearing West Virginia cities:
Bluefield.  (3/20/2019)
Charleston.  (3/14/2019)
Clarksburg.  (3/19/2019)
Fairmont.  (3/18/2019)
Huntington.  (3/15/2019)
Logan.  (3/22/2019)
Parkersburg. (3/16/2019)
South Charleston.  (3/21/2019)
Weirton.  (3/17/2019)
Wheeling  (1/16/2019)

                    Disappearing cities of the Buckeye State





Other disappearing cities of the Buckeye State:
Akron. (2/28/2019)
Brook Park (3/3/2019)
Cambridge.  (2/27/2019)
Canton.  (3/1/2019)
Cleveland.  (1/2/2019)
Cleveland Heights.  (3/5/2019)
East Cleveland. (3/2/2019)
East Liverpool.  (2/18/2019)
Euclid.  (3/4/2019)
Gallipolis.  (2/23/2019)
Garfield Heights (3/6/2019)
Ironton.  (2/24/2019)
Lakewood.  (3/8/2019)
Maple Heights, 3/7/2019)
Martins Ferry.  (2/21/2019)
Parma.  (3/9/2019)
Pomeroy.  (2/22/2019)
Portsmouth.  (2/25/2019)
Steubenville.  (2/20/2019)
Warren.  (1/18/2019)
Youngstown.  (1/9/2019)
Zanesville.  (2/26/2019)

Disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State



Aliquippa.  (1/12/2019)
Ambridge.  (1/17/2019)
Arnold.  (1/18/2019)
Braddock.  (1/19/2019)
Bradford, (1/20/2019)
Carbondale.  (1/21/2019)
Charleroi.  (1/22/2019)
Chester.  (1/23/2019)
Clairton.  (1/24/2019)
Coraopolis.  (1/25/2019)
Dickson City.  (1/26/2019)
Donora.  (1/27/2019)
Duquesne.  (1/28/2019)
Farrell.  (1/29/2019)
Harrisburg.  (2/12/2019)
Homestead.  (1/30/2019)
Johnstown.  (1/6/2019)
McKees Rocks.  (1/31/2019)
McKeesport.  (2/1/2019)
Monessen.  (2/2/2019)
Nanticoke.  (2/3/2019)
New Castle.  (2/4/2019)
New Kensington.  (2/5/2019)
Oil City.  (2/6/2019)
Pittsburgh.  (1/13/2019)
Pittston. (2/7/2019)
Scranton.  (1/14/2019)
Shamokin.  (2/8/2019)
Sharon.  (2/9/2019)
Steelton.  (2/11/2019)
Swissvale.  (2/13/2019)
Titusville.  (2/10/2019)
Uniontown.  (2/14/2019)
Washington.  (2/15/2019)
Willkes-Barre.  (2/16/2019)
Wiklinsburg.  (2/17/2018)

Other U.S. disappearing cities


Baltimore, Maryland.  (12/31/2018)
Benton Harbor, Michigan.  (1/15/2019)
Buffalo, New York, (1/8/2019)
Cairo, Illinois.   (1/5/2019)
Detroit, Michigan.  (1/1/2019)
East St. Louis, Illinois.  (1/11/2019)
Flint, Michigan.  (1/7/2019)
Gary, Indiana.  (1/4/2019)
St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)

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