Healthy Home Assessments in Grosse Pointe Park

Grosse Pointe Park at ground level

Westernmost Grosse Pointe, bordering Detroit, with walkable commercial streets on Kercheval, Jefferson, Charlevoix, and Mack and residents-only lakefront parks. Also noted: Home of Windmill Pointe, the point where Lake St. Clair ends and the Detroit River begins. About 4,329 households hold some 11,220 residents. The land began as French colonial ribbon farms settled as early as the 1740s along Lake St. Clair, later evolving into a summer resort area and then a year-round suburb.

What the numbers say

Census five-year estimates through 2023 put 75.3% of housing units in detached single-family homes and 74.0% of occupied units with their owners. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 71.4%. A local landmark: Patterson Park, with its skating rink and trails.

Mixed house types here, at 75.3% detached, mean the order of the visit is set on site once the envelope and the mechanical layout are established.

What stands in Grosse Pointe Park:

• Windmill Pointe. Lakefront point marking where Lake St. Clair ends and the Detroit River begins.
• Tompkins Community Center. Lakeside event center in Windmill Pointe Park with a glass atrium overlooking the water.
• Kercheval in the Park district. Walkable business district hosting a farmers market and pedestrian events like Kercheval After 6 and the Winter Social.
• Windmill Pointe Park. Residents' lakefront park at 14920 Windmill Pointe Drive with a pool, gym, movie theater, and gathering spaces.
• Patterson Park. Park at 16006 Essex, also called Three Mile Park, known for its skating rink and walking trails.

Across the community

Grosse Pointe Park also contains one named district, Windmill Pointe. Windmill Pointe: Lakefront neighborhood at the entrance to the Detroit River. Addresses fall in 48230. In 2014 the city built a farmers-market shed structure that barricaded Kercheval Avenue at the Detroit border, blocking a main east-west road; the dispute grew heated enough that Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan publicly called Grosse Pointe Park council members liars before the barricade was removed at year's end.