Desite an overall crack-down on illegal immigration around the country, it is the influx of an estimated 20,000 Mexicans to Southwest Detroit that has fueled its revitalization. The development of a Mexicantown Welcome Center and Mercado will celebrate that - right at the border.
"The revitalization of
Mexicantown is big in the revitalization of the city of Detroit because
of our location as the border and that image and because we're a
restaurant district that everybody knows about," [Mexicantown CDC vice-president of real estate and development Margaret] Garry said. "We really
do symbolize the resurgence of what's going on across the city."
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