East of this transition, the roadway turns northeasterly running through residential areas of Detroit.

Northeast of this interchange, M-8 becomes the Davison Freeway, running depressed below the level of the cross streets.

Davison Avenue continues past Mound Road where it turns back due east until it ends at Van Dyke Street next to the Mt.

The roadway was named for Jarad Davison, an English immigrant and one of the early settlers of the area.

A proposal to rebuild the street as a six-lane, limited-access highway was approved by the Highland Park City Council on March 17, 1941.

[2] The freeway construction required a half-block of right-of-way on the south side of Davison Avenue and the demolition of 69 homes to accommodate the 12–17 feet (3.7–5.2 m) of excavation along the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) project.

The outbreak of World War II accelerated the construction schedule after the project was given priority due to the defense plants near the roadway.

[8] The concrete for the road bed was cured underwater by flooding, creating an extremely hard and durable surface which lasted for more than 50 years (some requiring dynamite for its eventual removal).

[14][15] Except for a M-8 shield on the Lodge Freeway's Davison Avenue exit signs, the non-freeway portion of M-8 remains unsigned, including at the Davison Avenue exit from the Jeffries[16] where new Clearview signs were erected as part of a large I-96 reconstruction project in 2005.