East Front is located at 37°40′56″N97°18′16″W / 37.68222°N 97.30444°W / 37.68222; -97.30444 (37.682222, -97.304444) at an elevation of 1,298ft (396m).[4] It consists of the area between Douglas Avenue in the north and U.S. 54 in the south and between Grove Street in the west and Hillside Street in the east.[3] East Front borders Uptown to the north, College Hill to the east, Longview to the southeast, Sunnyside to the south, and New Salem to the northwest.[2]
Government
For the purposes of representation on the Wichita City Council, East Front is in Council District 1.[5]
The City Center campus of WSU Tech is located on South Grove Street immediately west of East Front.[9]
Transportation
All the main streets in East Front run along its periphery: Douglas Avenue, which runs east-west along its northern border; Hillside Street, which runs north-south along its eastern side; and Grove Street, which runs north-south along its western side. U.S. Route 54 runs east-west along the south side of the neighborhood as the Kellogg Avenue freeway, accessible via interchanges at Grove and Hillside.[3]
Wichita Transit offers bus service in East Front on its 21 and 24 routes.[10] On Fridays and Saturdays, the Douglas route of the free Q-Line trolley also services the neighborhood.[11]
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