Most of southern Ann Arbor—an area basically bounded by Ann Arbor–Saline Road to the west, Stadium to the north, Ellsworth to the south, and the Allen and Mitchell school areas to the east—is served by the paired elementary schools of Bryant and Pattengill. All children in this area go to Bryant from kindergarten through grade 2 and move to Pattengill for grades 3–5. Everyone goes on to Tappan and Pioneer. For a description of the portion west of State Street, see the Southwest section, below.
The neighborhoods tucked behind the Packard Street commercial strip include streets of modest and some larger homes and apartment and condo complexes. The area surrounding Pattengill was once prime farmland; now it’s a collection of neighborhoods built after World War II. This area includes the Nature Cove condominiums off St. Francis Drive. South of Independence Boulevard, houses and lots are slightly bigger in an area known as Kimberly Hills. This area also has the upscale Ponds of Georgetown apartments and several condo complexes.
Southwest of Packard, moderately priced houses built in the 1940s and 1950s are mixed with apartments. The large Woodbury Gardens complex features a clubhouse and one-to-three-bedroom apartments and townhouses. The complex takes its name from the U-M Botanic Gardens, which were in the Stadium-Iroquois area from 1915 until 1959, when they moved to Dixboro Road.
Along South Industrial are numerous small commercial and industrial businesses that spill over into the western ends of Rosewood and Jewett streets. Single-family ranches and small Cape Cods along these tree-lined streets are home to many older families and retirees.
The subdivisions near and south of Eisenhower Parkway are slightly more affluent. Tri-levels, ranches, colonials, and Cape Cods sit along winding streets. Georgetown, west of Stone School Road, has a semiprivate golf course, a private pool, and tennis courts. Activities at Georgetown’s country club heighten a strong sense of unity; many residents feel that this is one of the most sociable neighborhoods in Ann Arbor.
Large rental complexes border the western edge of Brown Park. The area is also home to a small manufactured-housing complex, Sunnyside Park, on Packard.
The Bryant neighborhood, just off Ellsworth and Stone School roads, is built on open and slightly rolling terrain. Single-family homes sit along Champagne Drive off Stone School Road. The Forest Hills co-op, north of Ellsworth Road, was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s as federally supported low-cost housing. The 472-unit Pheasant Run apartment complex lies west of Stone School Road next to Spruce Knob apartments, with Mill Creek townhouses across the street. And even more high-density housing is cropping up on Stone School Road, including the Oaks of Ann Arbor luxury condos being built next door to the new Stone School Townhouses, a “community housing alternative” for low-to-moderate-income families. Just north of Ellsworth, another condo enclave, Cloverly Village of Ann Arbor, has added seventy-six more homes for young families, seniors, and college students.
