I'm from Windsor and the limited time I've driven down the length of 8 mile I can tell you it's like 20 different neighborhoods from one end to the other
My Camaro broke down in Detroit today. A nice guy stopped and tried to give me a jump. But, my car was dead. He hung out with me while I waited for the tow truck and we talked Tigers and Lions. I’m white and he was black. But, we are simply bros now. Be good to each other
I grew up at 8 mile and Beck in Northville and I love to joke that I “grew up on 8 mile” to non locals and often get the “omg like Eminem?!”. I’m like sure yep Northville / Detroit like same same. But great video and good showing just how wide the range of 8 mile / Base Line Rd. is!
Northville is really nice. We used to stop up there all the time on the way to Fenton. Actually, a lot of the suburbs around Detroit are pretty nice. Some more upscale than others. Most of the areas that are super sketch are closer to Downtown.
It’s ironic that the most inhospitable part of 8 mile, the part where you couldn’t even film because you weren’t comfortable there, was the rural part outside of Detroit.
The part of 8 Mile west of Northville is actually the part you're most likely to get shot on. Remember, 8 mile is "his private property". There's a guy who feels the same way about the public DNR boat ramp by my place..... Takes all kinds.
Driving from one end of 8 mile to the other gives you a sense of just how big the City of Detroit proper actually is. On one side is Eastpointe, the other side Detroit. Then Warren and on the other side Detroit, Hazel Park, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Southfield, all the while on the other side, Detroit. There are even two separate cities INSIDE Detroit (Highland Park and Hamtramck).
We are bigger than San Francisco and quite a few cities people tend to forget Detroit was built to house 2 million people hence the many abandoned neighborhoods because of the population decline
Well it is so you can stop lying to ppl I live in Eastpointe and it's becoming unsafe cause of you know who so I KNOW you have MURDERS BURGLARY ARM ROBBERIES idk we're you at in Detroit just cut on the news and something is happening near u
Stop it you can't sell ppl a FALSE NARRATIVE about Detroit you will lose your life there at the gas station or corner store getting a Pepsi the mansion your showing I'm going to suggest ppl to look in the background now who wants to pay MILLIONS and have those ppl living behind you when they need to steal were you think they gonna go u doing this driving up property values and know one is going to move in any stupid person has section 8 and uses it in Detroit is a DAMN FOOL fr....Ppl from Detroit will never buy these homes at the current prices cause we can weigh the danger factor in NO ITS NOT WORTH IT these homes were 10-15k now they want 50-80k for the same houses in which the neighborhoods have gotten TERRIBLY WORST AND BLIGHTED
They kill innocent ppl EVERYDAY in Detroit were your kids going to go to school at what about car insurance in Detroit it's more than the actual car payment in areas u can't even vacation for a week everyone on the street will no your gone and there going in your home U CAN BET ON THAT NO DOUBT let me ask you this what about if your wife needs a coffee in the morning can she stop at 5am in Detroit on her corner and get gas and coffee would u allow your son on his way from work to stop at the store at 1am to get anything these are the questions u have to ask before u spend 50k on a Detroit house and that's low for a home so u can imagine the NEIGHBORHOOD
This was a nice video. It really did show growth and rejuvenation of this city. The people are what is making tge difference. The mansion is beautiful. Detroit went way down but, it is coming back. TY for showing this video. 🤗🤗
My husband grew up in Detroit and he would always say you can’t get lost just get on one of the Mile roads and you can always get back home. While living there I basically stayed off the interstate and took the surface street.
That's what people don't realize about cities. You could be walking 10min in a rough neighborhood then walk another 10min, turn onto another street and you'll end up in a hidden nice street block. I live in a downtown area in a major city in N. America and my walk is exactly like that. There's nice blocks and bad blocks then past a bad stretch of blocks there's an exclusive neighborhood.
Yuppies to hipsters. A lot of gentrification. A lot of expensive bouquets, cafes, and bakeries run by hipsters and gay people like Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York City.
My guy here is kinda missing the point. 8 mile is "the train tracks" separating 2 worlds. I worked at 8mile and Lahser for 10yrs... If you go North on Lahser a couple miles, it's common to find houses that have a "West Wing", a butler, garages with rotating floors, and they literally ask contractors to OVERCHARGE them so they can brag to their neighbors about how much they paid. To the south, there's a Burger King at 7mile and Lahser with bars on the windows and bullet proof glass at the drive thru window. 👀
You literally said @7:20 "The whole point of this video is to show you that the image you have of 8mile might not be true..." 8 mile is a busy 8 lane road with thousands of commuters going to work. Of course it's fine to drive down. It was never some "dangerous road" itself. But it's WHAT IT DIVIDES that gives it it's reputation. If you go a couple blocks South, it IS pretty dangerous, in many areas. You might not keep your car. If you go a couple blocks North you might see a Ferrari.
Wow! As a metro Detroiter I knew most of this already ofc, but I didn’t know there was a newer looking sub out there. So cool to talk to the locals & biz owners! Great coverage 👏🏻
When I think of eight mile, I actually think of hazel park. Somebody I used to work with. We would go to a scrapyard right on eight mile in hazel park.That's what I think of, also, there's a little diner dress right around the corner.Also in hazel park
Lots of memories from back in the day. It was how you got to the East Side. You had to cross it to get to Northland. My bank was at Asbury Park at 8 mile. We went to bowl, drive-in movie, and public pool off 8 mile. I bought my stereo at SONY center off 8 mile. On and on.
I live in the surburbs of Detroit - I can get up at 2 am in the morning and go for a walk - there are people that even get up and go for a walk at 4 AM without having to look over their shoulders or anything I feel that sense of safety is what I would want if I was still live in Detroit
My buddy owned a house in the 5 points neighborhood. Definetely hear some crazy stuff at night, but mostly it was pretty calm. I built my car in his garage at night and never had any real problems. Amazing restaurants in the area as well.
@murraywiles that sucks. It's a good thing you made it. Obviously, there is violence, but I wasn't messing with any of that. Crazy to think the house I was at sold for 140k a couple years ago.
I lived in detroit on 8 mile tween gratiot and kelly, all our neighborhood had bars on windows & doors and heard gunshots in the neighborhood behind our house all the time.
I live out of state and I love telling people that my high school was on 8 Mile but in Northville waaay out in the burbs. I had to walk a mile & up a hill which is the highest point in Wayne County to get to the high school.
Great video! Yes, I would definitely live off of 8 mile. In Livonia, Northville, or South Lyon. Nice homes! Detroit 8 mile is also not that bad of an area based on your video. I really like Downtown Detroit the best. Lots of restaurants and things to do downtown!
So many comments, but it's probably already been said... 8 mile road and Base Line road are in some cases synonymous and it goes way out past Jackson all in a straight line. In the Northville area 8 Mile and Base Line are on the same signs but 8 mils shifts around it. Nice video, I've been enjoying them!
My ancestors cleared and farmed land beginning in 1820, that part of much later became Baseline Road (used by surveyors) then changed to East 8 Mile. Northeast Detroit was called Conner Creek. They also built a log church in the woods that burned down, was rebuilt with brick, and eventuaĺly came to be called Assumption Grotto by the early 1900s. It is still in operation to this day, AFAIK. Many died of consumption (tuberculosis) and are buried in a small cemetery behind the church.
The trailer park that Eminem is NOT IN DETROIT. 8 MILE divides the city of Detroit from several suburbs. An actual cinderblock separates some stretches on the north side to separate the Detroit side from the suburbs. This was a redlining method used by the governing cities.
@@ashcrowpunk5820Man stop! He literally lived right across the street from Detroit and constantly hung out in Detroit. Y’all stupid as hell to keep bringing this bullshit up. Instead of being proud he’s from and reps Detroit hard y’all want to bring him down because he’s not black. I was born in Detroit and I grew up in Hamtramck, I was always in and out of the city since a kid. Y’all act like he grew up on 30 mile road. Bunch of haters.
@@ashcrowpunk5820 it’s not that big of a deal, everyone knows, it’s across the street and he technically did “grow up” in the city based on where he lived and where/who he hung out with. grow up
8 mile is truly an amazing road. You get to see both extremes of America in all their glory, from the ultra rich in their gated HOA communities to the dirt poor in what looks like a war had been fought there recently. It's like getting to watch the decline happen within the span of an hour or two.
One thing about Detroit is you are never more than 5 minutes from those burned out forgotten neighborhoods. I worked all the suburbs of Detroit for 40 years. I retired and am never going back again.
@@SanbornConstructionGroup we can only go to where dispatch sends us. If officers aren’t told where to go, then yes we wouldn’t show..also calls are given in order of priority..if a shooting call comes in the same time a burglary does, then they will send cars to the shooting first..people should also use the non emergency line to file reports..but everyone has their opinion about the city.. I just happen to know the facts..be safe
Great video dispelling the bad rap that 8 mile apparently had. Sanborn Construction is obviously going above and beyond to showcase the Detroit area they must love. We are preparing for retirement in about a year, shoot we may go out your way just to meet you all. Would consider living there but looking for something warmer.
I was in Detroit and I was shocked how nice it actually was I have only ever seen movies tv and music so I was expecting shooting and robberies all the crazy ish but hell there's actually a lot of nice places that you don't get to see
Most people who you mention anything about Detroit think of exactly what the start of the video looks like. I get a face and then the next thing out of their mouth is "why Detroit". No one seems to understand that there is more of the city coming back and looking beautiful again but it's that sitgmatism that is associated with Detroit. There are so many people that are building the great City of Detroit back.
@@SanbornConstructionGroup I will be coming and want to be part of that. I'm leaving the state of California because I love the history of Detroit and want to be part of it. I'll be calling you to see if we can make a few things happen!
I live in the northeast but the Mid Eight Sandwich Shop seems like exactly the type of place I like to chow down when I'm visiting a city for the first time, must be a good place to get a literal taste of Detroit.
The Bishop Mansion (aka the Bishop Gallagher Residence) is not on Eight Mile Road. It's about one mile south of 8 Mile in the Palmer Woods subdivision, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city of Detroit.
you need to come check out Palmer Park at 6 and 7 mile, at woodward. also the golf course. i live on the golf course on the 6 mile side. a non detroiter would never know it was detroit lol
I appreciate the tour. I've lived in Washington state most of my life. Would you be able to do a tour of the $7 million dollar house? That place is beautiful.
That house is located in Palmer woods. Palmer woods was built from roughly 1920 to 1935 or so as the downtown city became busier. Palmer woods holds an annual home tour each December where selected homes are open for tours. Ticket revenue is used to help support the infrastructure of that area. There are some terrific homes in that area besides the Bishop mansion.
I live on 8 mile and marshall. been here since 96, I'm sure when people think of 8 mile they dont expect the dirt road surrounded by thick forests, love it, nice and quiet, lol, I wasn't the guy that said you were weird
Good video, I’m local, and whenever I hear/think 8 mile, it’s the Detroit portion. I know it’s better out west, but like no one is talking about that side of 8 mile.
I agree with you that Detroit in general and 8 Mile Road in particular, does not deserve the bad reputation it has in the rest of the country. And it is fantastic that young people like you are preserving some of the older homes in Detroit and fixing them up so new homeowners can help this area rally back. But the Mid 8 sandwich shop, as well as the mini mansions near I-275, are all in Livonia, not Detroit. Not even Redford Township. The suburbs definitely have retained their taxpayer base better than the city in recent decades, and therefore have not lost as much in terms of population and businesses.
And to be fair, there are A LOT of places where you don't want to be at 2 a.m. There's a saying that goes something like "Nothing good happens at 3 a.m." ❤"Don't start none, won't be none."
8 Mile doesn’t end at a lake, it ends at the intersection where Spenser road turns South and Marshall road goes North! I know because I drove 8 Mile West until it ended there. Couldn’t drive through the woods!
Your can find fabulous homes in SHerwood Forest, which is between 7 and 8 mile. Also Palmer Woods between 7 Mile and McNichols, Woodward and Livernois.
Please stop with the misconception about 8 Mile being dangerous .it's basically a baseline Boulevard if you want to get to the nitty gritty and see some dangerous stuff, ride on 7 Mile East or West 6 Mile East or West or 5 mile better known as fenkell.
i was a security guard at a ,'' girls'', bar called ,'' the Railroad Crossing'', on the corner of 8 mile & Sherwood in the early 80's and we never had any problems , there used to be a bowling alley across the street that is now a White Castle..
It's gone. There's an industrial park there now consisting of Amazon and Target Distro centers. The old arch is still there and they turned the big barn looking building into a bus terminal.
Sure blew my perspective of 8 mile. I'm with the majority that thought it was more crime and no good as portrayed on the news and Eminem videos. Growing up in Rochester, it was instilled in us, that certain areas were to be avoided, 8 mile, 11 mile, 12 mile, so we did. You've shown very diverse areas. I actually had no idea it ended at a lake and how pretty it is. That mansion is beautiful, would like to see the inside, I know it's gorgeous. Many older mansions around Detroit, from back in "the days" were beautiful homes with great attention to detail. Excellent video!
Thank you Linda! I’m hopeful that with all of our channel we can show people some interesting things and perhaps help change the narrative about the city
@@SanbornConstructionGroup - I think you will. You've already shown that parts are being rebuilt. Since properties are very obtainable, makes sense for folks to invest in affordable properties in areas of regrowth.
4:05 Born and raised IN the city of Detroit on the Dearborn Heights border, and it's laughable thinking 8mi and Middlebelt is "Detroit", ie any issue with what outsiders would consider "Detroit city" problems. North side is Farmington Hills, South side Livonia, long time more affluent suburbs. Though that immediate area had its ups and downs, the old Livonia Mall was torn down and redeveloped less than a mile south. Just clarifying for outsiders that the word "Detroit" is used to refer to SE Michigan, ie the tri county Wayne, Macomb, Oakland, and parts of other counties like Washtenaw out to Ann Arbor. But the variation in demographics in SE Michigan is vast, with abrupt changes in wealth, crime rate, blight, etc neighborhood by neighborhood, often across a street or fence in your back yard depending on city political borders. Always been this way around Se Michigan.
That MM trailer park is on the Warren side of 8 mile, outside the city of Detroit. 8 mile is the northern limit of Detroit. So MM grew up in Warren, though obviously walked across the street into Detroit often. A long stretch of 8 mile is Oakland County on the north side, out of Detroit and Wayne County, which often is the butt of most jokes, complaints of crime and blight, etc Oakland County is the wealthiest county in Michigan, and one of the top in the USA
Grew up in Michigan west of here closer to Lansing and Eminem’s home is actually nicer than 75% of the trailer parks I’ve been too. I always assumed it was worse than that. There’s one near me that’s genuinely half abandoned, overgrown, and full of potholes. Looks like one of those old mining towns in west Virginia but with trailers instead of houses.
I grew up in one of the roughest areas of my city and people always say its friendly etc but its total bullshit. Most bad areas have a reputation for a reason and this guy said he would not be out here at 2am but the people who live there don't get an option.
big difference between 8 mile detroit and 8 mile livonia, novi ,farmington so no comparison. 8 mile is baseline road which goes all the way across michigan to the great lakes
3:35 No, you're not in Detroit if you're driving westward. The south side is Detroit. North side is Macomb, Oakland counties and their cities. It is common for neighborhood character to abruptly change at the political border of Detroit, sometimes jarringly. Other examples besides 8 mile are the drive down Jefferson eastward into the Grosse Points. Or many neighborhoods around the Detroit, Dearborn border. Abrubt change in proprtt style and blight and or cultural differences across a street or fence in a backyard. All in how cities are managed resulting in stark demographic changes
About twenty years ago, I thought that Eight Mile was perfectly safe. Clearly it still is. Now the east side of Seven Mile may be a different story....
I'm from Windsor and the limited time I've driven down the length of 8 mile I can tell you it's like 20 different neighborhoods from one end to the other
And all extremely different from one another!
Not just 20 different neighborhoods, like 20 different cities lol
@@allmoneyin_8953 or that😅
Detroits a dump, and its because democratic rule, we all need to awaken, if you vote dem, your voting for communism
@@allmoneyin_8953literally
My Camaro broke down in Detroit today. A nice guy stopped and tried to give me a jump. But, my car was dead. He hung out with me while I waited for the tow truck and we talked Tigers and Lions. I’m white and he was black. But, we are simply bros now. Be good to each other
Your lucky h didnt get shot or robbex
now all you needed a dude talking about bears and a girl about to hop on a yellow brick road :p
love it
don't forget to vote for Trump
@@PeaceToAll-sl1dbhell yeah
@@PeaceToAll-sl1dbsuck it
I grew up at 8 mile and Beck in Northville and I love to joke that I “grew up on 8 mile” to non locals and often get the “omg like Eminem?!”. I’m like sure yep Northville / Detroit like same same. But great video and good showing just how wide the range of 8 mile / Base Line Rd. is!
Love it 😂 and thank you!
Northville is really nice. We used to stop up there all the time on the way to Fenton. Actually, a lot of the suburbs around Detroit are pretty nice. Some more upscale than others. Most of the areas that are super sketch are closer to Downtown.
You rich lucky bastard....Northville is nice as fuck
Love me some Genitti's Hole In the Wall!
It’s ironic that the most inhospitable part of 8 mile, the part where you couldn’t even film because you weren’t comfortable there, was the rural part outside of Detroit.
Right?! 😂
The part of 8 Mile west of Northville is actually the part you're most likely to get shot on. Remember, 8 mile is "his private property". There's a guy who feels the same way about the public DNR boat ramp by my place..... Takes all kinds.
Driving from one end of 8 mile to the other gives you a sense of just how big the City of Detroit proper actually is. On one side is Eastpointe, the other side Detroit. Then Warren and on the other side Detroit, Hazel Park, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Southfield, all the while on the other side, Detroit. There are even two separate cities INSIDE Detroit (Highland Park and Hamtramck).
It 25 miles wide
We are bigger than San Francisco and quite a few cities people tend to forget Detroit was built to house 2 million people hence the many abandoned neighborhoods because of the population decline
Hamtramck. My hometown.
LOL. I've lived on 8 MIle for the past 33 years (2 different places.) I love my 8 Mile address. I have never thought of it as dangerous.
I saw you in your truck a few weeks ago (7 Mile and Inkster area.)
That’s awesome! I agree, the horror stories aren’t all the city is
Well it is so you can stop lying to ppl I live in Eastpointe and it's becoming unsafe cause of you know who so I KNOW you have MURDERS BURGLARY ARM ROBBERIES idk we're you at in Detroit just cut on the news and something is happening near u
Stop it you can't sell ppl a FALSE NARRATIVE about Detroit you will lose your life there at the gas station or corner store getting a Pepsi the mansion your showing I'm going to suggest ppl to look in the background now who wants to pay MILLIONS and have those ppl living behind you when they need to steal were you think they gonna go u doing this driving up property values and know one is going to move in any stupid person has section 8 and uses it in Detroit is a DAMN FOOL fr....Ppl from Detroit will never buy these homes at the current prices cause we can weigh the danger factor in NO ITS NOT WORTH IT these homes were 10-15k now they want 50-80k for the same houses in which the neighborhoods have gotten TERRIBLY WORST AND BLIGHTED
They kill innocent ppl EVERYDAY in Detroit were your kids going to go to school at what about car insurance in Detroit it's more than the actual car payment in areas u can't even vacation for a week everyone on the street will no your gone and there going in your home U CAN BET ON THAT NO DOUBT let me ask you this what about if your wife needs a coffee in the morning can she stop at 5am in Detroit on her corner and get gas and coffee would u allow your son on his way from work to stop at the store at 1am to get anything these are the questions u have to ask before u spend 50k on a Detroit house and that's low for a home so u can imagine the NEIGHBORHOOD
This was a nice video. It really did show growth and rejuvenation of this city. The people are what is making tge difference. The mansion is beautiful. Detroit went way down but, it is coming back. TY for showing this video. 🤗🤗
I agree! Glad you enjoyed it!
My husband grew up in Detroit and he would always say you can’t get lost just get on one of the Mile roads and you can always get back home. While living there I basically stayed off the interstate and took the surface street.
That's what people don't realize about cities. You could be walking 10min in a rough neighborhood then walk another 10min, turn onto another street and you'll end up in a hidden nice street block. I live in a downtown area in a major city in N. America and my walk is exactly like that. There's nice blocks and bad blocks then past a bad stretch of blocks there's an exclusive neighborhood.
You got rich people to crackheads😂
That’s not just 8 Mile…That’s Detroit lol.
@@misteriknow2069 literally any big city in the us
@@undefined5083 True
Yuppies to hipsters. A lot of gentrification. A lot of expensive bouquets, cafes, and bakeries run by hipsters and gay people like Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York City.
You even have some rich crackheads!!😳
You're bringing back memories. I grew up in St. Clair Shores. Graduated HS in the 70s. Detroit was so much fun!
I’m glad you liked it!
it sure was!
My guy here is kinda missing the point. 8 mile is "the train tracks" separating 2 worlds. I worked at 8mile and Lahser for 10yrs...
If you go North on Lahser a couple miles, it's common to find houses that have a "West Wing", a butler, garages with rotating floors, and they literally ask contractors to OVERCHARGE them so they can brag to their neighbors about how much they paid. To the south, there's a Burger King at 7mile and Lahser with bars on the windows and bullet proof glass at the drive thru window. 👀
Bruh I made the video I think I know what point I was trying to make 😂
You literally said @7:20 "The whole point of this video is to show you that the image you have of 8mile might not be true..."
8 mile is a busy 8 lane road with thousands of commuters going to work. Of course it's fine to drive down. It was never some "dangerous road" itself. But it's WHAT IT DIVIDES that gives it it's reputation. If you go a couple blocks South, it IS pretty dangerous, in many areas. You might not keep your car. If you go a couple blocks North you might see a Ferrari.
There's 2 subways on the same road on 8 mile and one has bullet proof glass and security doors while the other one doesn't.
i think i bought coke at that burger king back in the 80's .
When was the last time you were at 7 & Lahser. That Burger King has been gone over 20+ years
Wow! As a metro Detroiter I knew most of this already ofc, but I didn’t know there was a newer looking sub out there. So cool to talk to the locals & biz owners! Great coverage 👏🏻
Thanks Jillian, I appreciate that!
Thank you that was fun to watch, I lived at 8 mile and Farmington years ago.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Suggested title for this video: "8 Mile in 8 Minutes"
That’s good!
great overview of that stretch. I have done a similar trip on 7 mile road. quite different.
Very different!
There's a lot of snatch
Thanks for the content it's always good seeing Detroit in a good light 🕯️🚨.. Eastside
No problem!
Please do a tour of the canals by Jefferson Ave and Alter Rd.
We’ll check it out!
Yes I just discovered this very cool, own a boat and get access to the Detroit river whenever you want. It's like Venice.
used to fish for perch at the foot of Alter road years ago.
I swear, "that's a beefy piece" will never get old
It’s Connor’s (editor) favorite 😂
When I think of eight mile, I actually think of hazel park. Somebody I used to work with. We would go to a scrapyard right on eight mile in hazel park.That's what I think of, also, there's a little diner dress right around the corner.Also in hazel park
I lived Downriver my whole life, 51 years, never realized that 8 Mile went that far. Thanks for the video very informational and cool.
Ty for disspelling myth...Nice video..
No problem!
Lots of memories from back in the day. It was how you got to the East Side. You had to cross it to get to Northland. My bank was at Asbury Park at 8 mile. We went to bowl, drive-in movie, and public pool off 8 mile. I bought my stereo at SONY center off 8 mile. On and on.
I’m glad to hear people have positive memories of it 🙏
I live in the surburbs of Detroit - I can get up at 2 am in the morning and go for a walk - there are people that even get up and go for a walk at 4 AM without having to look over their shoulders or anything I feel that sense of safety is what I would want if I was still live in Detroit
I agree, Detroit needs a lot of work from the top down
i do the same and i live n detroit
My buddy owned a house in the 5 points neighborhood. Definetely hear some crazy stuff at night, but mostly it was pretty calm. I built my car in his garage at night and never had any real problems. Amazing restaurants in the area as well.
I got shot there
@murraywiles that sucks. It's a good thing you made it. Obviously, there is violence, but I wasn't messing with any of that. Crazy to think the house I was at sold for 140k a couple years ago.
I moved from out of town, just north of 8 mile. I walk my dog every day with no fear. Most of it isnt dangerous at all
Exactly!
I lived in detroit on 8 mile tween gratiot and kelly, all our neighborhood had bars on windows & doors and heard gunshots in the neighborhood behind our house all the time.
I live out of state and I love telling people that my high school was on 8 Mile but in Northville waaay out in the burbs.
I had to walk a mile & up a hill which is the highest point in Wayne County to get to the high school.
Great video! Yes, I would definitely live off of 8 mile. In Livonia, Northville, or South Lyon. Nice homes! Detroit 8 mile is also not that bad of an area based on your video. I really like Downtown Detroit the best. Lots of restaurants and things to do downtown!
i've been to Mid Eight on my way from Livonia to Warren. Great little sandwich shop.
It sure is!
I grew up in Detroit.
Well done video.
Enjoyed that.
Thanks. :))
“You were weird” struck me funny! 😂
Us too 😂
8 Mile Rd between Schoenherr Rd and Gratiot Ave is the worst for crime IMO.
JESUS ❤❤
@@LukasP143Had so much fun in that neighborhood many years ago.
@@LukasP143 what does that have anything to do with anything?
It got pretty bad for sure. I got out before it was really bad.
So many comments, but it's probably already been said... 8 mile road and Base Line road are in some cases synonymous and it goes way out past Jackson all in a straight line. In the Northville area 8 Mile and Base Line are on the same signs but 8 mils shifts around it. Nice video, I've been enjoying them!
Lived in Whitmore Lake for two years. Was the parking lot you filmed the ending in the Methodist Church?
It sure was!
My ancestors cleared and farmed land beginning in 1820, that part of much later became Baseline Road (used by surveyors) then changed to East 8 Mile. Northeast Detroit was called Conner Creek. They also built a log church in the woods that burned down, was rebuilt with brick, and eventuaĺly came to be called Assumption Grotto by the early 1900s. It is still in operation to this day, AFAIK. Many died of consumption (tuberculosis) and are buried in a small cemetery behind the church.
Assumption Grotto is still there. I delivered to it in 2024. On Gratiot in 48205. Wouldn't want to live in that zip tho. Ghetto as all hell.
The trailer park that Eminem is NOT IN DETROIT. 8 MILE divides the city of Detroit from several suburbs. An actual cinderblock separates some stretches on the north side to separate the Detroit side from the suburbs. This was a redlining method used by the governing cities.
We did talk about being in Detroit vs outside of
Yeah enimem is not from detroit! HES FROM WARREN!! GET IT RIGHT EVERYONE!
@@ashcrowpunk5820Man stop! He literally lived right across the street from Detroit and constantly hung out in Detroit. Y’all stupid as hell to keep bringing this bullshit up. Instead of being proud he’s from and reps Detroit hard y’all want to bring him down because he’s not black. I was born in Detroit and I grew up in Hamtramck, I was always in and out of the city since a kid. Y’all act like he grew up on 30 mile road. Bunch of haters.
@@ashcrowpunk5820 it’s not that big of a deal, everyone knows, it’s across the street and he technically did “grow up” in the city based on where he lived and where/who he hung out with. grow up
@allmoneyin_8953 no, i like being young
8 mile is truly an amazing road. You get to see both extremes of America in all their glory, from the ultra rich in their gated HOA communities to the dirt poor in what looks like a war had been fought there recently. It's like getting to watch the decline happen within the span of an hour or two.
Great job on the video never knew 8 mile looked like that beautiful home
Thank you!
I love when videos like these pop up in my feed
One thing about Detroit is you are never more than 5 minutes from those burned out forgotten neighborhoods. I worked all the suburbs of Detroit for 40 years. I retired and am never going back again.
I’m from the area and love this. More content like this please!
As a retired detective from DPD..it’s not safe.. unreal
Probably because DPD doesn’t show up 🤷🏻♂️
@@SanbornConstructionGroup excuse me sir, you appear to have dropped this 🎤
@@SanbornConstructionGroup When my house was burgled in 1987, the DPD wouldn't even send a car out, I had to go to the precinct to fill out a report.
@@SanbornConstructionGroup we can only go to where dispatch sends us. If officers aren’t told where to go, then yes we wouldn’t show..also calls are given in order of priority..if a shooting call comes in the same time a burglary does, then they will send cars to the shooting first..people should also use the non emergency line to file reports..but everyone has their opinion about the city.. I just happen to know the facts..be safe
Great video dispelling the bad rap that 8 mile apparently had. Sanborn Construction is obviously going above and beyond to showcase the Detroit area they must love. We are preparing for retirement in about a year, shoot we may go out your way just to meet you all. Would consider living there but looking for something warmer.
Thank you! We’re definitely trying to do our part
Thanks man, its about time somebody share the real world.
I don't know why people would think 8 mile was all bad. It's just the dividing line between Detroit and the burbs.
I think the 8 mile movie probably has something to do with it
The part of 8 Mile where it sprawls into Wisconsin is really nice.
I was in Detroit and I was shocked how nice it actually was I have only ever seen movies tv and music so I was expecting shooting and robberies all the crazy ish but hell there's actually a lot of nice places that you don't get to see
Exactly!
Most people who you mention anything about Detroit think of exactly what the start of the video looks like. I get a face and then the next thing out of their mouth is "why Detroit". No one seems to understand that there is more of the city coming back and looking beautiful again but it's that sitgmatism that is associated with Detroit. There are so many people that are building the great City of Detroit back.
Couldn’t agree more. We’re happy to be apart of the rebirth!
@@SanbornConstructionGroup I will be coming and want to be part of that. I'm leaving the state of California because I love the history of Detroit and want to be part of it. I'll be calling you to see if we can make a few things happen!
I live in the northeast but the Mid Eight Sandwich Shop seems like exactly the type of place I like to chow down when I'm visiting a city for the first time, must be a good place to get a literal taste of Detroit.
The Bishop Mansion (aka the Bishop Gallagher Residence) is not on Eight Mile Road. It's about one mile south of 8 Mile in the Palmer Woods subdivision, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city of Detroit.
Rest of that neighborhood is super nice though. Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest, Green Acres, University Park.
6:50 We need less million dollar homes and more affordable homes.
Been going to Tigers game since mid-70's. Always walked back downtown from Tiger Stadium to the hotel or tunnel bus after 10-11 pm. Never an issue.
you need to come check out Palmer Park at 6 and 7 mile, at woodward. also the golf course. i live on the golf course on the 6 mile side. a non detroiter would never know it was detroit lol
I appreciate the tour. I've lived in Washington state most of my life. Would you be able to do a tour of the $7 million dollar house? That place is beautiful.
We’ve definitely asked ourselves the same question, we might do it!
That house is located in Palmer woods. Palmer woods was built from roughly 1920 to 1935 or so as the downtown city became busier. Palmer woods holds an annual home tour each December where selected homes are open for tours. Ticket revenue is used to help support the infrastructure of that area. There are some terrific homes in that area besides the Bishop mansion.
I grew up in the 80s in a trailer park on the western edge of 8 mile in South Lyon.
No you Don't stop it ! 1:34
I live on 8 mile and marshall. been here since 96, I'm sure when people think of 8 mile they dont expect the dirt road surrounded by thick forests, love it, nice and quiet, lol, I wasn't the guy that said you were weird
Great video!
Good video, I’m local, and whenever I hear/think 8 mile, it’s the Detroit portion. I know it’s better out west, but like no one is talking about that side of 8 mile.
I’m glad we’re able to provide bigger perspective!
I love how they acknowledge the crime, then say 8 mile gets a bad rep and isn't that bad.
I’m from Jackson and technically 8 mile turns into territorial and starts right here on Berryville here in Jackson
3:15. North or South side of 8 mile?
South. I've delivered to that neighborhood. The house style is different in Oak Park and Southfield.
I agree with you that Detroit in general and 8 Mile Road in particular, does not deserve the bad reputation it has in the rest of the country. And it is fantastic that young people like you are preserving some of the older homes in Detroit and fixing them up so new homeowners can help this area rally back.
But the Mid 8 sandwich shop, as well as the mini mansions near I-275, are all in Livonia, not Detroit. Not even Redford Township. The suburbs definitely have retained their taxpayer base better than the city in recent decades, and therefore have not lost as much in terms of population and businesses.
Ive been to 8 mile a LOT because i live right next to Detroit ever since i was born
Great tour!
Thank you!
Now do 7 mile
You’re not the first to bring this up 🤔
@@SanbornConstructionGroup lol of course. You know I'm just teasing ya buddy
i think 7 mile has spots that are even more beautiful tbh
😂😂😂
And to be fair, there are A LOT of places where you don't want to be at 2 a.m. There's a saying that goes something like "Nothing good happens at 3 a.m."
❤"Don't start none, won't be none."
8 Mile doesn’t end at a lake, it ends at the intersection where Spenser road turns South and Marshall road goes North! I know because I drove 8 Mile West until it ended there. Couldn’t drive through the woods!
Your can find fabulous homes in SHerwood Forest, which is between 7 and 8 mile. Also Palmer Woods between 7 Mile and McNichols, Woodward and Livernois.
Great video, that was nice.
"It's not always drive by shootings".......only sometimes it's drive by shootings.
Definitely sometimes
Keep working guys, Please bring back Detroit.
Lol I loved one street over from Five Points and 7 mile. Usually telegraph is the border, but up there 5 points is the border. I loved it there.
Interesting video - thanks!
That 7 million garage looks like a cow barn
Please stop with the misconception about 8 Mile being dangerous .it's basically a baseline Boulevard if you want to get to the nitty gritty and see some dangerous stuff, ride on 7 Mile East or West 6 Mile East or West or 5 mile better known as fenkell.
I don’t think you watched the video
@@SanbornConstructionGrouphe/she different did not watch the full video
8 MILE ROAD GREAT STREET, GREAT CITY BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS EVERYBODY IS SO FRIENDLY U WILL LOVE IT HERE❤ SO PEACEFUL
Yes Pete!
@SanbornConstructionGroup I knew u would agree
i was a security guard at a ,'' girls'', bar called ,'' the Railroad Crossing'', on the corner of 8 mile & Sherwood in the early 80's and we never had any problems , there used to be a bowling alley across the street that is now a White Castle..
Played hockey at the state fairgrounds back in the late 60’s. Don’t even know if it still exists.
It's gone. There's an industrial park there now consisting of Amazon and Target Distro centers. The old arch is still there and they turned the big barn looking building into a bus terminal.
Sure blew my perspective of 8 mile. I'm with the majority that thought it was more crime and no good as portrayed on the news and Eminem videos. Growing up in Rochester, it was instilled in us, that certain areas were to be avoided, 8 mile, 11 mile, 12 mile, so we did. You've shown very diverse areas. I actually had no idea it ended at a lake and how pretty it is. That mansion is beautiful, would like to see the inside, I know it's gorgeous. Many older mansions around Detroit, from back in "the days" were beautiful homes with great attention to detail. Excellent video!
Thank you Linda! I’m hopeful that with all of our channel we can show people some interesting things and perhaps help change the narrative about the city
@@SanbornConstructionGroup - I think you will. You've already shown that parts are being rebuilt. Since properties are very obtainable, makes sense for folks to invest in affordable properties in areas of regrowth.
Damn. I drive by mid eight sandwich shop all the time going from 13 mile to ford road,and I never knew it was there. Ima have to swing in next time.
The flat terrain is awesome!
4:05 Born and raised IN the city of Detroit on the Dearborn Heights border, and it's laughable thinking 8mi and Middlebelt is "Detroit", ie any issue with what outsiders would consider "Detroit city" problems.
North side is Farmington Hills, South side Livonia, long time more affluent suburbs. Though that immediate area had its ups and downs, the old Livonia Mall was torn down and redeveloped less than a mile south.
Just clarifying for outsiders that the word "Detroit" is used to refer to SE Michigan, ie the tri county Wayne, Macomb, Oakland, and parts of other counties like Washtenaw out to Ann Arbor.
But the variation in demographics in SE Michigan is vast, with abrupt changes in wealth, crime rate, blight, etc neighborhood by neighborhood, often across a street or fence in your back yard depending on city political borders. Always been this way around Se Michigan.
I go to Detroit a couple times a year, never had problem and I usually go out after dark.
That MM trailer park is on the Warren side of 8 mile, outside the city of Detroit.
8 mile is the northern limit of Detroit. So MM grew up in Warren, though obviously walked across the street into Detroit often.
A long stretch of 8 mile is Oakland County on the north side, out of Detroit and Wayne County, which often is the butt of most jokes, complaints of crime and blight, etc
Oakland County is the wealthiest county in Michigan, and one of the top in the USA
Good positive video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
What alot of people don't know that the north border of Detroit ends at 8 mile not on it.
Grew up in Michigan west of here closer to Lansing and Eminem’s home is actually nicer than 75% of the trailer parks I’ve been too. I always assumed it was worse than that. There’s one near me that’s genuinely half abandoned, overgrown, and full of potholes. Looks like one of those old mining towns in west Virginia but with trailers instead of houses.
Good video!
Thanks!
I grew up in one of the roughest areas of my city and people always say its friendly etc but its total bullshit. Most bad areas have a reputation for a reason and this guy said he would not be out here at 2am but the people who live there don't get an option.
big difference between 8 mile detroit and 8 mile livonia, novi ,farmington so no comparison. 8 mile is baseline road which goes all the way across michigan to the great lakes
Exactly
His palms are sweaty
2:30 north or south of 8 mile?
South.
Born and raised, 1 block of 8-mile & JR, 😊
3:35 No, you're not in Detroit if you're driving westward.
The south side is Detroit. North side is Macomb, Oakland counties and their cities.
It is common for neighborhood character to abruptly change at the political border of Detroit, sometimes jarringly.
Other examples besides 8 mile are the drive down Jefferson eastward into the Grosse Points. Or many neighborhoods around the Detroit, Dearborn border. Abrubt change in proprtt style and blight and or cultural differences across a street or fence in a backyard. All in how cities are managed resulting in stark demographic changes
About twenty years ago, I thought that Eight Mile was perfectly safe. Clearly it still is. Now the east side of Seven Mile may be a different story....
The only reason 8 Mile is infamous is because that was the sundown line.
Very cool... I grew up at 8 mile and Five Points
When I think of Detroit I think of a white guy in a black Sanborn Construction Group polo shirt talking about Detroit.
Ayyy! Nice