With its groundbreaking today, the $7 million North End affordable neighborhood housing development announced by Central City Integrated Health (CCIH), along with Mayor Duggan, other City of Detroit officials and community members, signals that the city is one step closer to its goal of becoming a “city for everyone.” The now-vacant Saint Rita Apartments, […]
All Jevona Watson really wanted was to see a new coffee shop open its doors in her neighborhood. A resident of the Bagley community near Livernois Avenue and McNichols she could’ve started an online petition and invited any of the well-known java chains to the area. She might even have looked into becoming a store […]
If you are a small neighborhood business looking for ways to give your store the curb appeal it needs to bring in more customers Motor City Re-Store is for you. The program will provide a total of $500,000 in matching grants each quarter to existing businesses to make exterior improvements that will help stabilize and […]
More Detroiters are sharing the city’s wealth. A devoted core of civic leaders, residents and community-minded professional developers are bringing investment to areas in need of the same nurturing other parts of the city – namely downtown and Midtown – have received. Plans are underway to stabilize core neighborhoods that are already densely populated and […]
Would you turn away a rape victim or someone who has been tortured from your door? In essence, that’s the dilemma that Freedom House is facing today. The last few weeks have been incredibly troubling for metro Detroit’s immigrant and refugee communities. But even before news of President Trump’s so-called travel ban and the protests that followed, […]
Barbara Jean Jones has lived in her home for more than 50 years. She bought her home with her late husband James and together they raised four children. She lived in her home when she lost her husband and when she lost her son, a police officer, to an untimely death. Her house is filled […]
Home on Detroit’s east side during a college break, Maggie DeSantis’ daughter made an announcement. Her community had begun to feel like it was a foreign place. “I’m not living here,” she said, “because the neighborhood is changing in a way I’m not comfortable with.” DeSantis, former head of the Eastside Community Network, immediately knew […]