Flowers for Clinton Township, MI

The Clinton River gave this township its name and, for a long time, its center of gravity — the old settlement grew up along the water before the postwar decades filled in the rest. Today Clinton Township is the most populous township in the state, and it organizes itself around roads rather than a square: Gratiot Avenue runs its full length as a near-continuous commercial corridor, Hall Road carries the newer retail up past Partridge Creek, and layer on layer of neighborhoods spread out between them. There is no single downtown to aim at. A florist's afternoon here means working Gratiot, Groesbeck, Cass, and Hall, then dipping into subdivisions and apartment courts as the stops fall. Henry Ford Macomb off Groesbeck feeds the steady get-well trade, the cluster of long-standing chapels keeps sympathy work constant, and the Hall Road shopping and office belt throws off its own rhythm of birthday and thank-you orders.

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