By next fall you should be able to take the Riverwalk from the Joe Lewis Arena to Belle Isle. The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and its partners just broke ground for the Riverwalk extension along the Uniroyal site. It will complete the Conservancy’s vision of 3.5 miles of Riverwalk along the East Riverfront and connect the […]
The Kresge Foundation has awarded a record $2.4 million in grants to 25 nonprofit community organizations across Detroit. These grants bring the total of planning and implementation grants to 99 and the total dollars awarded to $9.2 million since 2015. The implementation projects include new pathways and arts programming in Brightmoor’s Eliza Howell Park, a […]
At 75, Wendell Harrison has been “the flame keeper of Detroit’s jazz legacy for 60 years. Now that multi-decade career has earned him the Kresge Eminent Artist Award. Harrison is one of only nine artists to be honored with the award since 2008. He receives an unrestricted $50,000 prize in recognition of his professional achievements […]
Yet another call for investment is being made in Detroit’s neighborhoods and it’s a big one. University of Detroit Mercy President Antoine Garibaldi’s announcement of a $100 million campaign that will support scholarships, academic programs, faculty research and state-of-the-art facilities, while eventually increasing its endowment to attract more students to help revitalize Detroit and train […]
Growth is good. And it’s becoming more evident in Detroit’s neighborhoods, particularly in the Livernois-McNichols area where government, civic and neighborhood leaders gathered just an hour ago to announce the ground-breaking of the new 2.5-acre Ella Fitzgerald Park development. A morning celebration of the new HomeBase community center and Ella Fitzgerald Park brought Mayor Mike […]