Last Days of Chinatown

Detroits Cass Corridor one of the roughest areas in the city for the past 100 years is experiencing a complete overhaul as longawaited development finally sweeps the area Long known as a center of drugs and prostitution and also once home to a thriving Chinese enclave its now peppered with boutique shops new bars and restaurants and the justdebuted Little Caesars Arena This feature from noted Detroit artist Nicole Macdonald mixes a personal journalistic and historic approach as it looks at who and what remains in the Corridor We hear how residents survived and how they sometimes didnt as gentrification redefines the space