According to The Who, the “kids are alright,” but it never hurts to give them a little extra help. John George’s new project, Kidz Camp, aims to prove the old lyric right. Kidz Camp will be headquarters for programs and opportunities already available in the Brightmoor/Old Redford neighborhood. From volunteering and employment to school help […]
With entertainment and restaurants shutdown, downtown Detroit is almost empty. Auto plants have come to a halt. Throughout the region residents are bouncing off the walls from social distancing. The coronavirus has left its mark on Detroit, and small businesses across the region are nervous. Calling on their Motor City determination. small businesses are working […]
For years hundreds and hundreds of Detroiters have worked behind the scenes to improve the city and its neighborhoods. They were here before business moguls began buying buildings downtown Detroit. Before national retail chains and restaurants came back to the city and before hipsters and the new creative class started discovering Detroit. Their work and […]
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 […]
Before there were business moguls buying buildings in downtown Detroit … Before there were national retail chains and restaurants coming back to Detroit … Before the so-called hipsters and the new creative class started discovering Detroit … Before claiming to be concerned about the neighborhoods of Detroit became a trend and a feel-good cliché … […]