Allen Park, Michigan Allen Park, Michigan Allen Park, Michigan is positioned in the US Allen Park, Michigan - Allen Park, Michigan Allen Park is a middle class suburb in central Wayne County, Michigan.
The suburb of Detroit was once recognized in Money Magazine's list of America's Best Small Cities. Allen Park is part of the compilation of communities known as Downriver.
Since 2002, Allen Park is the practice home of the Detroit Lions and is also the site of the team's headquarters.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.05 square miles (18.26 km2), of which 7.00 square miles (18.13 km2) is territory and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water. Allen Park borders Southgate to the South, Lincoln Park to the east, Melvindale to the north and northeast, Dearborn to the northwest, Dearborn Heights to the north, and Taylor to the west.
I-75 runs through the southeast corner of Allen Park between Goddard Road and the Lincoln Park border.
I-94 runs through the northern portion of Allen Park between Pelham Road and the Rouge River.
M-39, Southfield Road, is an eight-lane boulevard that travels in a northwest/southeast direction between the Lincoln Park border and I-94.
Goddard Road - an east-west mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Southgate between Allen Road and Old Goddard Road.
Old Goddard Road - an east-west road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Southgate between Goddard Road and Fordline Street.
Allen Road - a north-south road between Pelham Road and Outer Drive.
Pelham Road - a north-south mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Taylor between Allen Road and Van Born Road.
Ecorse Road - an east-west mile road between Allen Road and Pelham Road Van Born Road - an east-west mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Dearborn Heights between Pelham Road and the Southfield Freeway.
Outer Drive - an east-west road between the Southfield Freeway and the border of Lincoln Park.
It serves as a boundary between Allen Park and Melvindale between the border of Lincoln Park and I-94.
Fordline Street - a north-south half mile road (residential street) that is the boundary between Allen Park and Lincoln Park between Moran Road and Old Goddard Road.
Champaign Road - an east-west half mile road (residential street) between Pelham and Allen roads.
The street falls off grid between Allen Road and the Lincoln Park border.
Wick Road - an east-west mile road (residential street) between Pelham Road and Vine Street.
Reeck Road - a north-south half mile road (residential street) between Goddard Road and Allen Road.
The Allen Park Veterans Administration Medical Center was sometimes referred to as the Dearborn VA Hospital.
The Allen Park VA hospital was deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places on Jan.
Allen Park was incorporated as a village in 1927, and as a town/city in 1957. It was titled after Lewis Allen, a well-to-do lawyer and lumberman whose 276 acres of territory (primarily in Ecorse Township) encompassed holdings in what are now Allen Park and Melvindale. Hubert Champaign (for whom Champaign Park is named) and Edward Pepper were two other early inhabitants of the area. In 1950 Allen Park did not include the part of the town/city directly west of Melvindale; that region was still part of Ecorse Township. Parker, who was appointed emergency financial manager for the City of Ecorse in 2009 and the Highland Park school precinct earlier this year, will continue her part with Ecorse as she takes over Allen Park, but she will no longer serve over the Highland Park district. Joyce Parker left in 2014 after the financial crisis was determined over by the state. Most of Allen Park is inside the Allen Park School District.
The precinct also includes Allen Park Middle School, Allen Park High School, and Allen Park Community School.
Northern Allen Park is inside the Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Public Schools.
Rogers Early Elementary School is inside Allen Park. Residents in Melvindale-Northern Allen Park go on to Melvindale High School.
The Southgate Community School District serves Allen Park south of the Sexton-Kilfoil Drain. Prior to the assembly of Allen Park High School in 1955, education in Allen Park, provided at the Lapham school, ended after the eighth grade.
Students in the Allen Park school precinct had to travel to Detroit Southwestern High School, Lincoln Park High School, and/or Melvindale High School. Private schools in Allen Park include Inter-City Baptist School and St Frances Cabrini Schools (including Cabrini High School). Historically theological private schools in Ecorse, River Rouge, and Taylor served Allen Park residents. Allen Park is home to the Uniroyal Giant Tire, the biggest non-production tire scale model ever built, and one of the world's biggest roadside attractions. Originally a Ferris wheel at the 1964 New York World's Fair, the structure was moved to Allen Park in 1966.
In 2009, the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) announced that Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park would be the major site for the inaugural PBA World Series of Bowling.
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