Flowers for Southfield, MI

Ask a Southfield designer what makes this city different and the answer is the elevator. More office square footage stacks up here than in any other Detroit suburb, most of it in the glass towers clustered where the Lodge, I-696, and Northwestern Highway braid together in the corridor locals call the Golden Triangle — Town Center, the Prudential buildings, the American Center. That skews the order book toward the workday: coworker birthdays, promotion bouquets, and client thank-yous that have to clear a lobby guard before the recipient heads out. Step past the office core and Southfield turns residential fast — the mature blocks off Twelve Mile and Evergreen, the Magnolia and Sunset Hills streets, the quiet stretch toward Lathrup Village — with get-well work threading daily to Ascension Providence on Nine Mile and cap-and-gown arrangements landing at Lawrence Tech on Ten Mile.

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