They say plant a seed and things will start to blossom. That’s exactly what Barb and Joe Matney did in their Warrendale neighborhood. The far west section of Detroit that lies only four blocks from the border of Dearborn has not been the safest place in years past. Abandoned houses on many blocks didn’t help, […]
It was the late Eighties, and the neighborhood just to the south of where John George lives in Old Redford was feeling the pinch of the crack epidemic. “We didn’t want to be part of an expanding problem but part of a solution,” he says. It came a little too close to home – literally […]
Osborn is a neighborhood on the rise. The community, which lies on the northeast side of Detroit, has seen its fair share of challenges but knows how to get down to the business at hand: improving the neighborhoods for businesses and residents alike. This past Tuesday night, an organization at the heart of that neighborhood, […]