Ferndale's downtown shopping area, 9 Mile Road, featured many busy, popular stores in the 1940s to 1960s, including A & P Supermarket, State Supermarket ( which later became Food Fair, and eventually Farmer Jack ), Federal Department Store, Cunningham's Drugs, Hagelstein's Bakery, F & M Drugs ( the first store in the chain ), Sanders Bakery, Western Auto, several clothing and shoe stores, Ferndale Lanes ( a 20-lane second-story bowling alley over a group of stores on 9 Mile west of Woodward ), Kresge's, Woolworth's and Neisner " dime stores.

Ferndale's business district is anchored by the intersection of Woodward Avenue and 9 Mile Road, where privately owned shops, storefronts, dance clubs, bars and numerous restaurants are featured.

The current city manager is April Lynch, Ferndale's first female manager.

The Canning River Regional Park, located in Ferndale's north, is a popular route for cycling and walking as it is the parkland of the Canning River.

Ferndale's main road, Metcalfe Road, links two routes-Nicholson Road, which links Ferndale to Cannington and Westfield Carousel ; and High Road, linking to Riverton and the Bull Creek railway station.

Others later joined in creating a field of twelve machines that inaugurated the first race down Ferndale's Main Street during the town's annual art festival.

If the retailer and hotelman's downtown unit sales have been decreasing, however, his dollar volume continues to rise, and it is dollars which you put in the bank.

The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

To the extent that the problem is merely parking, an aggressive downtown management, like that of Lazarus Brothers in Columbus, Ohio, can fight back successfully by building a garage on the lot next door.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

( And this is not, perhaps, the place to discuss Harlem's very complex attitude toward black policemen, nor the reasons, according to Harlem, that they are nearly all downtown.

The Dolores Olmedo House is located in the traditional downtown of Acapulco and is noted for the murals by Diego Rivera that adorn it.

The Grashaus, a late medieval house at the Markt, is one of the oldest non-religious buildings in downtown Aachen.

The Falcons play their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta, but construction is likely to begin in 2014 on a new stadium with play beginning in the 2017 season.

* Procter & Gamble is an American multinational consumer goods company headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

* Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.

* Andreij-Sacharow-Platz in downtown Nuremberg is named in honor of Sakharov.

Battery Park City is bounded on the east by West Street, which separates the area from the Financial District of downtown Manhattan.

In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.

It is located near the downtown in Trnje district on the Marin Držić Avenue.

Its primary campus is located approximately northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Caltech's primary campus is located in Pasadena, California, approximately northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Cosmetology is offered through the Career Tech Center, but at an off-campus location in downtown Cadillac.

The Cadillac Institute of Cosmetology ( formerly Cadillac Academy of Beauty ) is a full service teaching salon in downtown Cadillac that offers training for general cosmetologists and specialized technicians to high school students through a partnership with Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District.

Their home stadium is Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati.

Many of the city's financial institutions ( for example, CBOT, Chicago Fed ) are located within a section of downtown called " The Loop ", which is an eight-block by five-block square of city streets that are encircled by elevated rail tracks.

Situated () south of downtown, the airport covers most of the land inside a wedge formed by Interstate 75, Interstate 85, and Interstate 285.

In 1955, a newly formed private company, Intercity Buses, Inc., began operating bus service connecting Oswego with downtown Portland and Oregon City.

Much of downtown Perth, including the town hall, are on the island formed by the two channels.

Around 1875, many businesses and homes were moved from north of the railroad to the south, and formed what was to become downtown Louisburg.

Columbus Lake, formed by the John C. Stennis Lock and Dam, is approximately two miles north of downtown.

When it was formed, a few miles of woods separated downtown Caldwell from Newark or any of its developing suburbs.

When it was formed, a few miles of woods separated downtown Caldwell from Newark or any of its developing suburbs.

The Tennessee River, which slices through the downtown area, is formed in southeastern Knoxville at the confluence of the Holston River, which flows southwest from Virginia, and the French Broad River, which flows west from North Carolina.

After decades of stagnation and slow growth, Spokane businessmen formed Spokane Unlimited, an organization that sought to revitalize downtown Spokane.

In 1916, six local doctors formed a group practice clinic in the second story of the Thiel building downtown, calling themselves Marshfield Clinic.

The Bulldog Supporters Group ( also referred to as " BSG " or " the Bobbies ") formed out of the British Bulldog Pub in downtown Denver in 2010.

Although the Boyd family had been involved in the Las Vegas casino industry for decades, Boyd Gaming Corporation wasn't founded until January 1, 1975, when the company was formed to develop and operate the California Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas.

The first Rotary Club was formed when attorney Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown Chicago, at Harris ' friend Sylvester Schiele's office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905.

It was formed by the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ( PCUSA ), often referred to ( inaccurately ) as the " Northern " Presbyterian Church, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America ( UPCNA ), a smaller church of Covenanter-Seceder tradition at a conference in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May 1958.

Most of the land in what is now the downtown core formed part of the estate of the Earl of Scarbrough and he, together with his agent H. V. Tippet, realised that the extensive sandy beach could be made attractive to holidaymakers from the industrial towns of the English Midlands, a clientele already developed by Thomas Cook.

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was formed in July, after the September 11 attacks to plan the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan and distribute nearly $ 10 billion in federal funds aimed at rebuilding downtown Manhattan.

Ed Roybal's as some areas from Thomas Rees ' district was formed to create the 24th district, in the neighborhoods west of downtown Los Angeles.

The GCRTA was established December 30, 1974, and on September 5, 1975 assumed control of the Cleveland Transit System ( a successor to the Cleveland Railway ), which operated the heavy rail line from Windermere to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and the local bus systems, and Shaker Heights Rapid Transit ( the descendant of a separate streetcar system formed by the Van Sweringen brothers to serve their Shaker Heights development ), which operated the two interurban light rail lines from downtown to Shaker Heights.

WBUR decided to partner with the newly formed Foundation for Ocean State Public Radio to build a state-of-the-art facility at historic Union Station in downtown Providence.

Royal City were formed in 1999 at Jim Guthrie's house in downtown Guelph Ontario.

But the west leg of the proposed Inner Loop ( a six-lane, high-speed freeway in downtown D. C. which formed an ellipse centered on the White House ) cut through the Foggy Bottom site, and the planned highway would have to be moved west to accommodate it.

With the backing of the Chamber of Commerce, Duncan formed a Good Will Committee, which encouraged downtown businesses to integrate their lunch counters.

The Red Mountain Museum later formed a partnership with a nearby children's science museum, The Discovery Place, to form " Discovery 2000 ", which then moved away from Red Mountain to downtown Birmingham and became the McWane Science Center which opened on July 11, 1998.

It was formed in 1933 and is located between downtown Brevard and the entrance to Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina.