Windsor is difinately a neighbourhood city, not so much a DT city. We have multiple old streetcar town centres like Olde Sandwich town, our oldest neighbourhood which dates back to the mid 1700s, Old Walkerville (our trendiest and most gentrified neighbourhood) which dates back to the late 1800s, and was built exclusively for Hiram Walker Distillery's workforce.
Just east of Walkerville you have historic Ford City, which sprang up around the earliest Ford plant in the early 1900s, and was an epicentre of the Eastern European population, it is one neighbourhood that is still struggling with drugs and prostitution unfortunately, but things are starting to turn around.
Just east of there is the old town of Riverside, which today is a very nice neighbourhood with great riverfront parks and a very nice condo cluster, as well as a cute commercial district.
Most of our historic buildings DT have been razed unfortunately, and the neighbourhoods surrounding the core are some of the poorest in the city, but there have been improvements and it seems like the area is ripe for investment, especially with the local economy doing so well.
Our ethnic neighbourhoods are also very popular and very vibrant, and really help to make the city feel very urban and diverse!
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