Livernois Soup and Light Up Livernois events help buoy cash-strapped Avenue of Fashion businesses

Livernois Soup and Light Up Livernois events help buoy cash-strapped Avenue of Fashion businesses

Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion, one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhood business districts, hit a speed bump with scheduled construction along the shop’s busiest corridor. It’s a massive project, albeit temporary one, according to shopowners contendng with foot traffic drops created as a result of limited parking and impassable sidewalks. The $8 million streetscaping project […]

Community creates art project to raise dollars for homeless and at-risk young women

Community creates art project to raise dollars for homeless and at-risk young women

The front of Love Travels Imports is a testament to community involvement. Hanging in the window of the store on Livernois is a 12 ft. x 9 ft. Community Art Project made of ceramic pieces created by neighborhood residents, shoppers and young women from Alternatives For Girls. All the pieces were fired by local artist […]

Avenue of Fashion shop owners open hearts and doors

Avenue of Fashion shop owners open hearts and doors

Finding the right gift for anyone can be a challenge. For young women who’ve faced hardship in their lives it can be even harder to know what gesture will have the greatest impact. Fifty youths will receive a gesture from a Detroit businesswoman who can relate to some of their experiences Aug. 17 when Alternatives […]

Grand River WorkPlace helps startups stay up

Grand River WorkPlace helps startups stay up

To Larissa Carr, Detroiters have a different kind of hustle and grind no other city possesses. Carr said local neighborhoods have found ways to revitalize themselves through beautification or foreclosure prevention, butCarr thinks residents can also see that hustle through entrepreneurship especially in the Grandmont Rosedale community. Carr is manager of Grand River WorkPlace,19120 Grand […]