If you want to learn the ins and outs of social media and turn those skills into a great job, here’s your chance. Grand Circus, a professional tech training institute with campuses in Detroit and Grand Rapids, is ready for its second wave of bootcamps supported by Facebook. Under this partnership, residents of Michigan are […]
The City of Detroit this week will begin the first phase of a project along a 5.4-mile stretch of East Jefferson Ave. that will make the street safer and better connect residents to the riverfront. The roadway will soon have seven lanes rather than five, more protected bike lanes to help connect residents to Belle […]
It’s finally happening. We can say good-bye to potholes and rough surfaces on many Detroit roads. The City of Detroit has launched a $58 million project that will repave 88 miles of roads in neighborhoods and some major thoroughfares across the city this year. Repaving those roads will provide jobs. While residential street paving is done by city workers, many […]
Those heading to opening day of The Whitney’s Garden Parties must sprint to the event. By sprint, they mean sprint. On Thursday, May 17 at 6:00 p.m. those attending can either do a .1K “minithon” (0.062 miles. 109.361 yards. 328 feet) across Woodward Avenue or a 5K run around Midtown ending at the garden party. The sold-out event is called “Sprint to the Spirits” […]
Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhoods. It is the first project of this type for the nonprofit real estate developer and is the first scaled, for-sale, new construction in the North End in decades. Homes built in Grandmont-Rosedale will be in partnership with […]
The City of Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund (SNF) will soon bring more investment into seven city neighborhoods and add additional affordable housing. The fund will raise $130 million (SNF 2.0) for investment in seven neighborhoods – Grand River Northwest, Warrendale/Cody-Rouge, Russell Woods/Nardin Park, Campau/Banglatown, Gratiot/7-Mile, East Warren/Cadieux, and Jefferson Chalmers. It has already successfully invested […]
They’ve been called “angels of mercy” and they’re known for taking temperatures and pulses. Even before the doctor walks in, a pleasant, professional nurse has a way of comforting the sick, using little more than a smile and a calming presence. To celebrate the National Nurses Week, through May 12 Paralee Boyd Salon is offering […]
A popular biblical scripture informs readers, “Faith without works is dead.” The verse helps embody the continuous effort of Covenant Community Care, a network of metro Detroit health clinics that serve patients, guided by Christian charity principles. Along with offering affordable treatment and referrals, including medical and dental support for individuals and families, the clinic’s […]
Retiring Southwest Solutions CEO John Van Camp took part in his first “sit-in” for social justice when he was just 10 years old. His family had moved from Detroit to an apple farm in Romeo around 1948. There was little interracial contact in the city, so his mom Dorothy, a social activist, formed an interracial […]
Detroit has flower power. Daffodils are beginning to bloom along medians and in parks thanks to the 265,000 bulbs planted over the past few years. It’s all part of a beautification program to plant 1,000,000 daffodils across the city by the fall of 2020. Another 209,500 bulbs are being planted by city crews this year, […]