Herman Gardens was a public housing project located in the northwest area of Detroit, Michigan.
The Gardens was located on the west side of Detroit at the southeast corner of the Joy Road and Southfield Freeway intersection close to what was then termed "some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the City of Detroit."
Automobile giant John DeLorean, TV Judge Greg Mathis, talk show host and author Peter Werbe, and classic Motown group The Spinners all called Herman Gardens home.
After problems had occurred in the buildings from the illegal drug trade in the early 1980s, the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) applied for HOPE VI funds under the 1996 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), it intended to reduce the number of public housing units from 1,573 to 672.
After over a decade of planning, the first phase of the 607-unit, mixed-income development named Gardenview Estates was opened on the former site of Herman Gardens on September 2, 2009.