Southfield, Michigan Southfield, Michigan City of Southfield Southfield Town Center Southfield Town Center Southfield, Michigan is positioned in the US Southfield, Michigan - Southfield, Michigan Southfield is a town/city in Oakland County of the US state of Michigan.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 71,739. A part of Metro Detroit's upscale office market, the city's marque is a cluster of five golden high-rise buildings known as the "Golden Triangle" that form the intact 2,200,000 square feet (204,400 m2) Southfield Town Center office complex with a Westin Hotel and a conference center.
Southfield was surveyed in 1817 as stated to the plan by Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass. The first pioneer came from close-by Birmingham and Royal Oak, Michigan, as well as the states of New York and Vermont.
The region that would turn into Southfield was settled by John Daniels in 1823.
Town 1 north, 10 east was first organized as Ossewa Township on July 12, 1830, but the name was changed just seventeen days later to Southfield Township. The township took its name from its locale in the "south fields" of Bloomfield Township.
The Southfield Fire Department was formed on April 6, 1942, and the Southfield Police Department in 1953. Southfield Town Center Most of what was left of the township was formally incorporated as a town/city on April 28, 1958 to protect it from annexation attempts by the town/city of Detroit, whose expanding African American improve was perceived as a threat by caucasians who fled to overwhelmingly white suburbs like Southfield as a part of segregationist white flight. (definition, origin of phrase required for better understanding) The current town/city hall was assembled in 1964 as part of the new Civic Center complex, which also became home to Southfield's police headquarters.
Evergreen Hills Golf Course was added in 1972, and in 1978, a new enhance safety building, the Southfield Pavilion and a new court building were added.
In 2003, an period and redesigned Southfield Public Library opened to the enhance on the Civic Center grounds, featuring state-of-the-art facilities.
Outside the Civic Center complex, Southfield also has municipal parks and recreation facilities, which were largely advanced in the 1970s, including Beech Woods Recreation Center and John Grace Community Center.
Southfield Town Center athwart from Lawrence Technological University Southfield is a commercial and market seat for the urbane Detroit area, with Southfield's 27,000,000 square feet (2,508,400 m2) of office space, second in the Detroit metro region to Detroit's central company precinct of 33,251,00 square feet (3,089,000 square metres).
Several internationally recognized corporations have primary offices and command posts in Southfield, including the North American command posts of Autoliv, Huf Hulsbeck and Furst, Denso, Peterson Spring, Federal-Mogul, Lear, R.L.
Today, more than 100 Fortune 500 companies have offices in Southfield.
October 28, 2014, Fifth Third Bank announced plans to move its Michigan county-wide command posts from Southfield to downtown Detroit in what will be titled the Fifth Third Bank Building at One Woodward. The office had 150 employees. Northland Center, one of the first shopping malls in the nation, opened in Southfield in 1954 and closed in 2015.
Southfield is home to over 780 acres (3.2 km2) of parkland and a nationally recognized enhance school district.[who?] The Consulate of Macedonia in Detroit is in the Southfield Town Center, and the Consulate of Iraq in Detroit is in Southfield. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 26.28 square miles (68.06 km2), of which, 26.27 square miles (68.04 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. The chief branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield.
The town/city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road.
Southfield's northern border does not follow a single road, but lies approximately around Thirteen Mile Road.
The town/city is bordered by Detroit and Redford Township to the south, Farmington Hills to the west, Franklin, Bingham Farms, and Beverly Hills to the north and Royal Oak, Berkley and Oak Park to the east.
The separate town/city of Lathrup Village sits as an enclave in the easterly part of the city, completely surrounded by Southfield.
Word of Faith International Christian Center in Southfield, formerly Duns Scotus The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 54.22% African American, 38.83% White, 3.09% Asian, 0.20% Native American, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.64% from other competitions, and 2.99% from two or more competitions.
Of the city's 33,987 homeholds, 25.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 41.8% were non-families.
The age distribution in the city's populace was spread out with 21.6% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Overall, Southfield is a town/city of revenue and office workers, professionals and managers.
There is a mostly large number of citizens living in Southfield who work in office and administrative support (16.00%), revenue jobs (10.93%) and management occupations (9.72%).
The populace of Southfield is very well educated relative to most metros/cities and suburbs in the nation, where the average improve has 21.84% of its adult populace holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.73% of grownups in Southfield have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
In 2002 Southfield had 42,259 black citizens , giving it the second biggest black populace in Metro Detroit and third biggest in the state of Michigan. As of 2011 many African-Americans from Detroit are moving into Southfield and other Oakland and Macomb county communities.
As of 2001 many Chaldeans live in Southfield.
The Chaldean Federation of America, an umbrella organization for most county-wide Chaldean groups, is positioned in Southfield.
As of that year, the biggest Chaldean church in terms of the number of congregants resided in Southfield.
Tower entrance to Southfield Public Library Southfield utilizes the Council-Manager form of government, and thus is governed by a City Council consisting of seven council members.
The town/city council appoints a City Administrator, who manages the day-to-day operations of the city.
Southfield Public Schools operates region enhance schools.
Southfield High School in Southfield and Southfield-Lathrup High School in Lathrup Village serve Southfield.
Students living in parts of Northern Southfield attend schools in the Birmingham City School District, while students living in the Southeast corner of Southfield attend schools in the Oak Park School District. Both Southfield and Southfield-Lathrup compete in the Oakland Activities Association (White Division) for high school sports as well as have membership in the MHSAA. Southfield Public Library operates enhance libraries in the city.
Southfield is home to eight universities including Lawrence Technological University, Abcott Institute, Everest Institute and Oakland Community College.
The Specs Howard School of Media Arts is in Southfield.
Southfield is the broadcast media center for the Detroit area, boasting studios and broadcast facilities for a several tv stations including WXYZ-TV, WJBK, WKBD-TV, WMYD-TV, WWJ-TV, and City Cable 15.
Metro Detroit's county-wide sports network Fox Sports Detroit is positioned in Southfield on 11 Mile and Evergreen roads.
A transmitter for WDIV-TV is in the city, however they are the only tv station based in downtown Detroit.
The town/city serves as the locale of CBS Radio's Detroit studios.
Southfield is also served by WSHJ 88.3 FM, which is a student-run airways broadcast sponsored by Southfield Public Schools.
In addition to The Detroit News and Free Press, Detroit's two urbane daily newspapers, Southfield is served by the Southfield Eccentric, a suburban paper that reports on small-town and improve affairs, which is presented twice a week, on Sunday and Thursday. The command posts of The Detroit Jewish News are positioned in Southfield. The Chaldean News is also headquartered in Southfield. The town/city also contains I-696, Southfield Freeway (M-39), and US 24 (Telegraph Road).
Most prominently, "The Lodge" freeway joins downtown Detroit to "The Mixing Bowl," the widespread interchange of I-696, US 24, M-10, Lahser Road, and Franklin Road, all of which are positioned in Southfield.
The primary east-west streets are 8 Mile Road (which forms the southern boundary of the city), 9 Mile Road (which is split by the Southfield Freeway), 10 Mile Road, 11 Mile Road (which is split by the Lodge), and 12 Mile Road.
Major north-south streets are Telegraph Road, Lahser Road, Evergreen Road, Southfield Road (the northern extension of the Southfield Freeway) and Greenfield Road (which forms the easterly boundary of the city).
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Southfield, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Southfield city, Michigan".
"City of Southfield website, History of Southfield webpage".
"Detroit Jewish News 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034" Southfield, MI 48034" "Southfield welcomes culture." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Southfield, Michigan.
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