They’re a generation on the move. Whether in their professional or private lives, millennials, adults born in the 1980s and ‘90s, have become known for exploring and adventure-seeking. In urban communities nationwide millennials are a valued and highly sought-after commodity by city and suburban housing agents and developers in need of occupants. Around Detroit and […]
Community advocate DeVone Boggan knew it would be a tough sell – maybe the toughest of his life. But desperate times call for desperate measures and Richmond, Calif. was sweating in 2007. The community of 100,000, north of Berkeley, had witnessed an alarming 47 murders and wore the tag of one of the nation’s most […]
Call it fashion of the fittest. A peculiar stream of sartorial splendor filled Cobo Center recently as 500 guests and honorees of the 2016 Governor’s Fitness Awards made their way to a ballroom for the annual dinner. Sneakers were matched with suit coats and evening gowns hovered over high-tops as participants dressed for the theme […]
Getting a breath of fresh air in polluted areas of Southwest Detroit could become a more real possibility. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) recently announced a move to get legislative approval in setting new sulfur dioxide limits for U.S. Steel’s Zug Island Boiler Houses. The new rule would also reduce sulfur dioxide at […]
Mayor Mike Duggan remembers when tall buildings around his new office at Coleman A. Young Municipal Center were filled with empty floors. It was early in his first year after being elected, and surveying the land left him feeling challenged. Today he’s thankful corporations have begun filling the towers downtown. “This is a day I […]
Dale Brown envisions a community where security doesn’t involve police officers and calls to 9-1-1 would be needless, even by the elderly and physically vulnerable. Brown doesn’t live in a desert or small town where neighbors leave doors unlocked. He resides and works in Detroit where his Threat Management Center’s privately trained men and women […]
Brightly colored blossoms will replace concrete cracks and overgrown weeds in lower east side Detroit communities this summer. With support from a $25,000 Kresge Innovative Projects grant in 2015, the technical assistance provider, published, Greenfill Development: A Guide to Repurposing Vacant Lots for Flower Farming Enterprises. The guide outlines two unique business models that will […]
Louise Ogadinma spent much of her childhood in west side Detroit community centers. After school in her neighborhood, there was no shortage of places where she and her friends could go to spend time enjoying extracurricular activities. Now a mother in her 20s, Ogadinma is concerned other Detroit youth don’t have the opportunities she had. […]
Susan Newell’s been fighting the good fight. A self-described “child of the ‘60’s,” an era when personal values often clashed with society’s agenda, the Three Mile Block Club president values few things more than her community. So it comes as little surprise to those who’ve known her that, even as a senior, Newell stays at […]
There is a seed germinating from the darkness Little things are poking up and seeing the light Big things are making haste The people are coming together in love, not in fear – John Knowles, “A Rising in Detroit” John Knowles’ idyllic childhood on Princeton Street in northwest Detroit was like a scene from a […]