Jefferson East Executive Director Joshua Elling sits at the helm of an organization that is taking the lead in redevelopment on Detroit’s east side. Many east side Detroit residents know that growth is coming to their neighborhoods. One unbridled advocate of that growth is Jefferson East, Inc., or JEI, an organization not only heavily involved […]
Fifty leaders – ranging from corporate to grass roots residents, foundations to community development professionals, academics to bankers – converged on Baker’s Keyboard Lounge on Thursday, July 27 to mull this question over, all the while feasting on Baker’s trademark “catfish nuggets” and peach cobbler. In a wide-ranging conversation co-moderated by Donna Murray Brown of […]
There is no shortage of residents willing to dig in and improve city neighborhoods, according to ARISE Detroit Executive Director Luther Keith, who reported a record 350 neighborhood improvement efforts took place during a single day alone on August 6, the celebration of his organization’s 10th Annual Neighborhoods Day. It does not stop there, according […]