LGBT small business academy opens

LGBT small business academy opens

Whether you want to start-up or rev-up your small business, there are resources available in the LGBT community. One is a four-course training series specifically focused on retail and small businesses focused on the B2B marketplace. The series is the centerpiece of the newly-launched Mature Business Academy (M.B.A.) supported by the Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Seasoned industry veterans […]

Uptick in Detroit home sales in 2016, even bigger gains coming

Uptick in Detroit home sales in 2016, even bigger gains coming

Real estate brokers like Austin Black II are happily working near 24/7 these days. The owner of City Living Detroit, a full-service real estate brokerage, reports that his biggest challenge is meeting ever increasing demand for housing stock in the city. “The properties continue to get scarcer, even as prices rise to stratospheric levels in some […]

Rebuilding home ownership in Detroit with new opportunities

Rebuilding home ownership in Detroit with new opportunities

The importance of rebuilding homeownership in Detroit in order to revitalize its neighborhoods cannot be underestimated. Detroit is where the middle class movement began and took hold, and the distinctively American dream of homeownership helped form the foundation of this defining movement. Detroit had the greatest number of single-family homes per capita and boasted highest […]