Brightmoor is a neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. It stretches from Fenkell Road and Southfield Freeway to Fenkell and Telegraph Road.Since its creation in the 1920s, the Brightmoor area in northwest Detroit has been home to thousands of working class families. It was a poor but stable community, but racial tensions and an influx of slumlords in the 1970s and 1980s changed much of the area into a "wasteland of vacant buildings and a haven for drug addicts and prostitutes." The area has suffered abandonment, vandalism, crime and population loss. Non-profits in the area, including Motor City Blight Busters, Northwest Detroit Neighborhood Development, have recently begun working hard to improve the area by building and renovating abandoned homes. Brightmoor Community Center has worked for decades to fix homes and fight crime and blight Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815... United States Highway 24, a dual north-south/east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ...