Redevelopment proposals for Lee Plaza, Woodland Apartments include low-income housing

Redevelopment proposals for Lee Plaza, Woodland Apartments include low-income housing

Lee Plaza and Woodland Apartments, two of Detroit’s architectural gems, will get a second lease on life and offer housing assistance for low-income earners if developers step up for the project. The City of Detroit and the Detroit Building Authority are seeking proposals to redevelop the two historic apartment buildings. The two projects will include […]

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 […]

Old Detroit needs as much love as the new Detroit

Old Detroit needs as much love as the new Detroit

I refuse to call it Midtown. The last time I misspoke, I felt stinging from a thousand needles on my tongue, as the ghosts of Cass Corridor chastised me, enraged. I suffered mind-numbing paralysis that left me dazed for hours, as I repeatedly dabbed drool from my lockjaw-frozen lips. It was as if I’d spoken […]