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 […]
It seems like every grandfather has some neighborhood business he loves. It must come with the territory … like working a slide rule. Sometimes it is a bar, or mechanic, or hardware store. For my grandfather, it was Scotty Simpson’s Fish and Chips (Scotty’s to those in the know). My grandfather died at age 94 […]
by Kelly Gleason Looking for family fun this weekend? Here are LittleGuide Detroit’s suggestions. Friday, August 3: Take a ride on the carousel, enjoy an interactive story time and take a book home with you for free at the Detroit Riverfront’s weekly Reading and Rhythm on the Riverfront Friday, August 3 + Saturday, August 4: Head […]
The vacant Holcomb Elementary school and the surrounding area in Old Redford are getting a new lease on life with a $6 million investment The school, which has been empty for nearly 10 years, will become a 32-unit senior cooperative housing community called the St. Matthew Cooperative. The renovation will also include walking paths, parks […]
Margarita Barry, a renter and entrepreneur extraordinaire, bought her Land Bank and County Auction house to gain a stake in the city on the move. She bought cheap and dug deep into her savings to make it home. “I bought my property for $6,000 in 2012 near Old Redford, on the northwest edge of the […]
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 […]
It was one of the most frightening moments of Lester Parnell’s life. After pulling into his driveway with his family and getting ready to enter the house one evening he noticed his 1-year-old toddling between a mother raccoon and her baby. An abandoned house on Artesian Street next door to his home had long been […]
Wearing construction gloves, old jeans and a Motor City Blight Busters t-shirt, Justin Moore heads out with a caravan of teen workers to beautify his Old Redford neighborhood. His efforts net at least a couple garbage bags of trash a day, a weight loss of 60 pounds and, for the first time in three years […]