Bryant and Pattengill are paired elementary schools in two neighborhoods south of Washtenaw Ave., with Bryant providing K–2 and Pattengill grades 3–5. Bryant’s immediate neighborhood offers some of the city’s least expensive housing, with small ranch homes and multifamily complexes. Homes are bigger and more expensive near Pattengill, where kids go for grades 3 to 5. The schools have quite different histories, reflected by their namesakes; Bryant opened in 1973 and honors longtime AAPS custodian Clifford Bryant, whereas Pattengill opened in 1957 and is named for a former high school principal who died in 1908.
The neighborhoods off Packard include streets of modest and some larger homes, plus apartment and condo complexes, including the affordable Pattengill Condos and the 249 luxury apartments in the George. The area surrounding Pattengill, once prime farmland, was built up after World War II. Kimberly Hills, south of Independence, has newer and bigger homes, some on dirt roads that date to its past as a township “island.” Southwest of Packard, moderately priced houses built in the 1940s and 1950s are mixed with apartments.
The subdivisions near and south of Eisenhower are slightly more affluent. Tri-levels, ranches, colonials, and Cape Cods sit along winding streets. Georgetown, west of Stone School Rd., has a semi-private golf course, private pool, and tennis courts.
South of the interchange of Ann Arbor–Saline Rd. and I-94 in Pittsfield Township, newer single-family houses line a maze of twisting streets behind the Oak Valley and Waters Place shopping centers. Subs here include Briar Hill, Lake Forest, Lake Forest Highlands, the Pines at Lake Forest, and the Villas at Bella Vista, and there are condos within the Estates at Bella Vista.
South of Ellsworth are the winding roads of the huge Stonebridge golf course subdivision and nearby smaller subs, with stately executive homes and detached condominiums in a large area that’s divided between the Ann Arbor and Saline school districts.
Multifamily housing is also abundant. Small apartment buildings line Packard and E. Stadium. Midsize complexes along Packard include Mulberry Row (120 units), Pine Valley (164 units), Homestead Commons (112 units), and the upscale 134-unit Ponds at Georgetown. Spruce Knob, just to the south off Stone School Rd., adds 168 units. Woodbury Gardens, off Stadium at South Industrial, is one of the city’s biggest rental complexes, with 538 units; Arbor Village, behind St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, has 237. Smaller but closer to campus and downtown, 2111 Packard will add seventy-two units on a site that was once a Kroger supermarket. Yet more apartments are available at the five complexes in the Briarwood Mall area—the Emerson and Briar Cove south of Eisenhower, ReNew, Hidden Valley Club, and the Villas at Main Street to the north.
Condos and co-ops include the 306 affordable townhouses of Forest Hills Cooperative on Ellsworth, the 76-unit Cloverly Village at Ellsworth and Stone School Rd., the 116-unit Georgetown Commons, and a trio of complexes off Ann Arbor–Saline Rd. south of I-94: Heatherwood with 188 2- and 3-bedroom ranches; and Oak Meadows and Weatherstone, each with more than 300 mid-priced units.
Bryant-Pattengill grads go to Tappan Middle School and then Pioneer High.
Bike lanes: Packard, E. Stadium, South Industrial, S. State, E. Eisenhower, and Stone School Rd. have bike lanes; Jewett Ave. is bike-friendly from South Industrial to Packard, as is Page Ave. and Esch Ave. from Jewett to King George Blvd. King George connects E. Eisenhower to Packard.
Walking: Bryant School has a Walk Score of 21 and Pattengill School has a Walk Score of 37. Homes in the southwestern part of the district are close to shopping on Ann Arbor–Saline Rd. and Eisenhower, but for the most part, this area features residential subdivisions far from retail. This may change as parts of the Briarwood Mall property are reconceived as residential.
