Westacres in the News
June 5, 2017
Before Levittown there was Westacres, situated on the shore of Middle Straits Lake in West Bloomfield, Mich.
Westacres, West Bloomfield’s innovative residential development on Commerce Road begun during the Depression, brings together two seemingly disparate subjects
The Westacres Vendor Show will host 26 vendors, featuring food, shopping and prizes.
What was once an experiment to enable factory workers a chance at home ownership has evolved into a 75-years-strong community that still serves as an asset to West Bloomfield.
Excerpt from the unpublished chapter of The Song of the Heron
Westacres Celebrates 75 years
August 9th, 2011
Subdivision originally of coworkers founded on volunteer efforts
In the late 1930’s when Jo Jensen was a baby, her family moved into a brand-new planned community called Westacres.