Planning for the future in a city whose narrative has been defined by uncertainty is challenging. Still, Detroit Future City took on the challenge, got input from more than 100,000 community members and adopted as a road map toward equitable and sustainable development by the Duggan administration. Now, it’s time for implementation, says Detroit Economic […]
As new local Detroit businesses open and local neighborhood staples expand, the city aims to promote more than 600 retailers and services and is part of a team creating a directory to help. Spearheaded by Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. and Councilman James Tate, the DI$COVER D1 initiative, designed to support District 1 businesses, is the […]
Michigan residents have greater access to healthy fruits and vegetables, thanks $380,000 in contributions from Michigan Good Food Fund’s Catalytic Investment Awards. The fund is helping to support the type of necessary improvements that typically prevent smaller, independent grocers from carrying fresh fruits and vegetables. DETROIT Two Detroit-based organizations were awarded with funds that will […]
It can’t always be someone else’s responsibility. That steadfast belief is what has pushed 10 years of ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day. Each year more and more people jump on the bandwagon to work to make life in Detroit something envied by the rest of the world. An army of thousands of volunteers, backed by hundreds […]
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 […]