# Jeffries Projects

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The **Jeffries Homes**, also called the **Jeffries Housing Projects**, was a [public housing](/source/Public_housing) project located in [Detroit](/source/Detroit), [Michigan](/source/Michigan), near the [Lodge Freeway](/source/Lodge_Freeway). It included 13 high-rises and hundreds of [row house](/source/Terraced_house) units, and was named for [Detroit Recorder's Court](/source/Recorder's_Court_(Detroit)) Judge Edward J. Jeffries, Sr., who was also father of [Detroit Mayor](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Detroit) [Edward J. Jeffries, Jr.](/source/Edward_Jeffries)

## History

The first phase, Jeffries West, opened in 1953 as a complex of eight 14-story [towers](/source/Tower_blocks). The second phase included five additional towers in Jeffries West and Jeffries East, 415 apartments in a set of low-rise apartment blocks, added in 1955.[1] In total, the project included 2,170 housing units on 47 [acres](/source/Acres).[1] At first, the complex was popular among many Detroit residents who were eager to move into the new buildings. But by the late 1960s, the buildings had become a haven for [drug dealers](/source/Illegal_drug_trade) and an area with a high crime rate.[2][1]

## Redevelopment

Five towers of the complex were demolished in 1997, and four additional towers were [imploded](/source/Building_implosion) in 2001 to make way for the redevelopment of the site.[1] An additional tower was demolished approximately two years later. The remaining tenants of the Jeffries were moved to Freedom Place and Research Park housing complexes, approximately 8 city blocks from the Jeffries, while the redevelopment took place.[3] A development by Scripps Park Associates was built on the site of Jeffries West and named "Woodbridge Estates" at a cost of $92 million.[3] Woodbridge Estates includes 281 [mixed-income housing](/source/Mixed-income_housing) rental units, 101 [owner-occupancy](/source/Owner-occupancy) attached and [detached single-family homes](/source/Single-family_detached_home), a 100-unit senior housing apartment building, plus 297 units of senior housing in the three remaining towers of the former Jeffries West.[4]

Jeffries East was demolished in 2008 and the site redeveloped as mixed-income complex named "Cornerstone," completed in late 2012 developed in three phases..[1][5] It included the development of 180 rental units in 30 buildings of [townhomes](/source/Townhomes) and [duplexes](/source/Duplexes), consisting of 138 [public housing](/source/Public_housing) units and 42 [affordable housing](/source/Affordable_housing) rental units. Former residents of Jeffries East in good standing with the Detroit Housing Commission were permitted to return to the new complex.[6]

## References

1. Puls, Mark. ["Jeffries towers tumble - Implosion makes way for new housing"](https://www.crimeindetroit.com/documents/043001%20Jeffries%20Towers%20Tumble.pdf). *Crime in Detroit*. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

1. ["Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 1986 · Page 3"](http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/99148511/). *Newspapers.com*. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

1. White, Brandon Q. (2007-12-27). ["Gentrification of Detroit: Will Shiny New Projects Push Out the Old Residents?"](http://michiganmessenger.com/611/gentrification-of-detroit-will-shiny-new-projects-push-out-the-old-residents). *Michigan Messenger*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120722205728/http://michiganmessenger.com/611/gentrification-of-detroit-will-shiny-new-projects-push-out-the-old-residents) 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Experience, Woodbridge Estates"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160514145254/http://www.rhgcommunities.com/experience/woodbridge-estates.php). *Rosenberg Housing Group*. Archived from [the original](http://www.rhgcommunities.com/experience/woodbridge-estates.php) on 14 May 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2017.

1. ["Jeffries East Housing Project Slated for Demolition"](http://frequency13.blogspot.com/2007/01/jeffries-east-housing-project.html). *Frequency 13 - Detroit*. Retrieved 24 November 2018.

1. ["Cornerstone"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181210230755/http://www.dhcmi.org/DevelopmentSiteDetails.aspx?siteid=10). *Detroit Housing Commission*. Archived from [the original](http://www.dhcmi.org/DevelopmentSiteDetails.aspx?siteid=10) on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.

## External links

- [Jeffries towers tumble](http://www.detnews.com/2001/metro/0104/30/c01-218570.htm) — 2001 article in the *[Detroit News](/source/Detroit_News)* about the demolition of many of the Jeffries Projects towers.
- [About the Jeffries Projects](https://web.archive.org/web/20041101020806/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=101084) — Information about the buildings in Jeffries Project.

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