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Volunteers will dig in to change Detroit during ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day

By M Lapham on 05/26/2016 All Neighborhoods

It can’t always be someone else’s responsibility. That steadfast belief is what has pushed 10 years of ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day. Each year more and more people jump on the bandwagon to work to make life in Detroit something envied by the rest of the world. An army of thousands of volunteers, backed by hundreds […]

City of Detroit earmarks $11.7 million to make over 40 neighborhood parks, playgrounds

By Marge Sorge on 03/17/2016 Healthy Cities

Detroit’s neighborhoods are the window into the city. Now that window will be filled with more green parks and views of children playing on playgrounds. It’s all made possible under an $11.7 million plan just laid out by Mayor Mike Duggan and City Parks & Recreation Department officials. It’s found money. In his budget address earlier […]