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 […]
The future of Detroit and its neighborhoods is centered around young people and their commitment to stay here and work for the continued improvement of the city and the community. With that in mind, the City of Detroit is seeking planning and design consultants to create a child-centric development framework plan for the Warrendale-Cody Rouge […]
Jefferson East Executive Director Joshua Elling sits at the helm of an organization that is taking the lead in redevelopment on Detroit’s east side. Many east side Detroit residents know that growth is coming to their neighborhoods. One unbridled advocate of that growth is Jefferson East, Inc., or JEI, an organization not only heavily involved […]
Twenty-five Cody High School students will work summer jobs at DTE Energy, while 15 men from the Cody Rouge neighborhood further their knowledge of plumbing, carpentry, and painting, through a training program. Meanwhile, thousands of other Cody Rouge youth and families will gain various benefits from General Motors, Quicken Loans and the Skillman Foundation in […]
Leaders of the far-west side’s most prominent community will announce their strategy for improving the quality of life for residents Wednesday morning. Members of the Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance are set to unveil a comprehensive plan to transform Cody Rouge into a premiere neighborhood, with support from the Skillman Foundation, DTE Energy, General Motors and […]
Rainy days were giving Lillie Gibson something even worse than the blues. A resident of the same east side Detroit home since 1969, Gibson began equating soggy days outdoors with soggy days indoors, after her roof began to deteriorate. Almost 600 homeowners have been approved for work. “I was sitting here one day and it […]
It’s been a full year since an innovative community-policing program called Project Green Light kicked off in Detroit. Residents, city officials, law enforcement and business owners all sing its praises, and rightly so. Near the enrolled businesses, crime has plummeted by nearly one half and patrons feel safer. This has not meant an end to […]