A neighborhood built out of Quonset huts off of Grand River Avenue is in the running to win a major international architecture prize. True North has been selected as one of the six projects in North and South America competing to win the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), a biennial prize established by […]
Kids are indeed Detroit’s future so creating neighborhoods that encourage their growth and success is essential. Warrendale-Cody Rouge area, which has the highest concentration of school-aged children in Detroit, has a plan to accomplish that. It is working with the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department and partners to create a strategy to improve […]
Families in Detroit have a new resource to help them make decisions about children’s education. The Community Education Commission will release its Detroit Parents’ Guide to Schools for the 2018-2019 school year Aug. 2 at Wayne County Community College District downtown. The book will be presented during a school enrollment fair, where about 150 schools […]
“The best is always the better buy.” That is one of the slogans George Sorisho came up with for Mini Mart Specialty Meats, which has found success in Detroit since 1975. Sorisho began working as a butcher in the 1950s and quickly gained a reputation. It wasn’t long until he started getting hired to help […]