Marge Sorge, Author at The HUB Detroit

Expanded Strategic Neighborhood Fund to bring investment to seven more communities, add affordable housing

By Marge Sorge on 05/10/2018 City News

The City of Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund (SNF) will soon bring more investment into seven city neighborhoods and add additional affordable housing. The fund will raise $130 million (SNF 2.0) for investment in seven neighborhoods – Grand River Northwest, Warrendale/Cody-Rouge, Russell Woods/Nardin Park, Campau/Banglatown, Gratiot/7-Mile, East Warren/Cadieux, and Jefferson Chalmers. It has already successfully invested […]

CEO Van Camp retires from Southwest Solutions with legacy of fighting for social justice

By Marge Sorge on 05/09/2018 City News

Retiring Southwest Solutions CEO John Van Camp took part in his first “sit-in” for social justice when he was just 10 years old. His family had moved from Detroit to an apple farm in Romeo around 1948. There was little interracial contact in the city, so his mom Dorothy, a social activist, formed an interracial […]

One million daffodils to brighten Detroit medians and parks by 2020

By Marge Sorge on 05/09/2018 City News

Detroit has flower power. Daffodils are beginning to bloom along medians and in parks thanks to the 265,000 bulbs planted over the past few years. It’s all part of a beautification program to plant 1,000,000 daffodils across the city by the fall of 2020. Another 209,500 bulbs are being planted by city crews this year, […]

Detroit dancer Erika ‘Big Red’ Stowall featured on new online PBS series

By Marge Sorge on 04/30/2018 City Culture, City News

Detroit’s own Erika ‘Big Red’ Stowall has danced her way into an online PBS series called “If Cities Could Dance.” The program is the creation of KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area NPR and PBS station. Each webisode in the series captures the dancers’ personal stories and their deep-rooted relationships to their community and city. […]

LinkedIn to move into historic Sanders building on Woodward

By Marge Sorge on 04/27/2018 City Jobs, City News

LinkedIn has signed a lease on the historic Sanders building at 1523 Woodward Ave. Renovations are underway and it expects to move in next year. The Sanders building is owned by Bedrock, which purchased it in 2016. Last August LinkedIn opened its first U.S. office in 10 years in Detroit in a temporary space. In […]

Quicken Loans, Bedrock invest $1 million in Breithaupt to help more Detroiters find skill-trades jobs

By Marge Sorge on 04/26/2018 City Jobs, City News

The future for Detroiters and the city’s employers just got brighter. We all know Detroit’s long-term growth depends on creating jobs and preparing residents to do them. A $1 million investment by Quicken Loans and Bedrock in the Breithaupt Career and Technical Center will help do that. Breithaupt offers many technology-based, hand-on education options in […]

Upcoming economic development in Warrendale-Cody Rouge neighborhood focuses on children

By Marge Sorge on 04/10/2018 City News, District 7

The future of Detroit and its neighborhoods is centered around young people and their commitment to stay here and work for the continued improvement of the city and the community. With that in mind, the City of Detroit is seeking planning and design consultants to create a child-centric development framework plan for the Warrendale-Cody Rouge […]

Women’s Power Breakfast kicks off Gleaners campaign to provide 1 million meals for hungry kids in southeast Michigan

By Marge Sorge on 04/06/2018 Building Healthy Communities, City News

There are many, many powerful and influential women leaders in southeast Michigan. On Thursday, April 19 more than 700 of them will gather at the 25th annual Women’s Power Breakfast and use that power and influence to raise dollars for Gleaners Community Food Bank to help stamp out hunger in our region. This year’s breakfast, which […]

Comerica, Hope Closet team up to help girls in need find just the right prom dress

By Marge Sorge on 03/27/2018 City News, Upcoming Events

For many going to the prom is a watershed event … a magical life milestone that brings lasting memories. It’s also can be a time of great stress. Do I have the right dress? The right accessories? For young women in need the stress is complicated by the cost of that dress and those accessories. […]

Wayne State’s new $65 million performance complex will help promote Detroit’s legacy in performing arts

By Marge Sorge on 03/24/2018 City Culture, City News

Back in 1961 Wayne State University purchased the First Church of Christ Scientist building and refitted it to become the Hilberry Theatre, which would house the graduate repertory company. Since 1963, there have been more than 5,600 performances enjoyed by more than two million patrons. As a result, the facility is showing its age. “Space […]