Angel investors and mission-driven developers are helping Detroit bolster its economic base, according to a recent series of reports from the Urban Institute. “Coming Back from the Brink: Capital Flows and Neighborhood Patterns in Commercial, Industrial and Multifamily Investment in Detroit” and “Mission Finance in the Motor City.” suggest the least trumpeted story is the […]
Move over millennials. Aging boomers will be among the next population wave to hit Detroit, according to a new report by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute which reports that “gray” will become the new currency over the next 30 years. Both the city and Southeastern Michigan will experience a population surge, data from “Southeast Michigan […]
The topic of metro Detroit senior living hits close to home, literally, for Tahirih Ziegler. Aside from her professional charge as executive director of Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC), she has a mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s and lives in a nursing facility. What Ziegler’s mom has in common with many local seniors, healthy […]