Design Center in a Box competition seeks to use local talent to reactivate empty commercial spaces

Design Center in a Box competition seeks to use local talent to reactivate empty commercial spaces

You’ve seen them and sometimes turned your head in disgust as you walked by. Empty Detroit storefronts – sometimes with posters in the windows and sometimes all you see is just dirty windows. No matter what, they’re ugly. Well, the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department has a plan to use local talent to […]

Southwest Detroiters have high hopes for vacant site’s future

Southwest Detroiters have high hopes for vacant site’s future

It sits empty, but not forgotten. Neighborhood locals and business leaders have big dreams for “Vernor Crossing,” the former southwest Detroit Department of Public Works yard at 6370 Vernor Highway near Livernois Avenue. Led by the Southwest Detroit Business Association (SDBA), research projects a multi-million-dollar makeover of the seven-acre site could transform it from eyesore […]

Development leaders discuss protecting, investing in Detroit

Development leaders discuss protecting, investing in Detroit

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 […]

Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood moving forward with bold new development plan

Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood moving forward with bold new development plan

A dramatic new partnership between the city of Detroit, four foundations, The Platform and Century Partners will bring $4 million in investment and redevelopment of more than 300 parcels within the beloved Fitzgerald neighborhood. Officials who announced the partnership Wednesday said “Fitzgerald Forward” as the plan is known will be one of the largest neighborhood […]