OPINION By Nat Zorach Until last week, the most frustrating headlines I was reading were mostly so-called “think pieces” about the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the future of cities. “Maybe cities are too crowded,” they would muse, vacuously. “Maybe the density of the built environment is too high.” On May 25, though, the […]
Few people have called Fountain Court home as long as Robyn Ussery has. Her parents Roger and Blanche Ussery have lived for decades at what board members say is the largest black-owned cooperative in Detroit, even watching some of their grand- and great-grandchildren raised there. Concern and determination by residents and leadership, including board President […]
Perhaps the best news in Detroit over the past few years has been the interest, development and investment in the city’s neighborhoods. As neighborhoods grow, so does the rest of Detroit. A proper balance between the downtown core and the rest of the city is essential to the area’s long-term health. So when a real-estate […]