77 percent of residents live within a ten-minute walk of a park, per the Trust for Public Land's ParkServe data source
Community character
Compact Downriver city built in the 1920s to house Ford Rouge plant workers, incorporated as a village in 1924 and a city in 1933, with its biggest growth in the wartime 1940s source
Melvindale Civic Arena
City ice arena at 4300 South Dearborn Street with public skating, hockey, and indoor soccer source
John K. Kessey Fieldhouse
City recreation fieldhouse run by Parks and Recreation source
Oakwood Heights origins
The city grew from the Oakwood Heights farm plat developed in the 1920s to house Ford Rouge plant workers and was named for developer Melvin Wilkinson source
Melvindale city parks
Four city parks; 77 percent of residents live within a ten-minute walk of a park source
Melvindale Parks and Recreation programs
Community recreation programming across the arena, fieldhouse, and parks source
