PJ’s Lager House to raise money for future Detroit music store

Corktown bar, restaurant, and music venue PJ’s Lager House is hosting a two-night fundraiser for Third Wave Music, a musical instrument and supply store scheduled to open in August 2015 in Midtown’s Forest […]

Abick’s Bar, a neighborhood institution for more than a century

Detroit's oldest continuously family-operated bar is mourning the loss of its matriarch, Manya Soviak, but a new generation of the family is leading the neighborhood institution into its second century of existence.

Jeanette Pierce of the Detroit Experience Factory
Detroit Experience Factory to move to Monroe Avenue, Build Institute to Bagley Street
Gold Cash Gold
Managing partner on Gold Cash Gold opening: A ‘wild’ success
Navitas House
Art Deco classic restored in downtown Detroit
December development news round-up
Philly residents and police working together
Police-community partnerships offer way to improve neighborhood safety

Dozens of communities across the U.S. have formed effective, ongoing partnerships with the police departments that have improved safety and trust between residents and officers.

The Detroit hustle: When love for the city goes beyond the 9-to-5

Plenty of people work to better Detroit at their day jobs, but some don't call it quits at 5 p.m. A pair of Detroit Revitalization Fellows finds fulfillment both at work and while moonlighting as a distillery owner and a hip hop artist respectively.

As they wait for contracts, local organizations prepare workers for deconstruction jobs

While demolition will make up the lion's share of the city's blight elimination efforts, Mayor Duggan and the Detroit Blight Authority are pushing to ensure that deconstruction also plays a role. Area training centers hope to prepare students for careers in both demolition and deconstruction.

How local real estate developers are giving new life to some of Detroit’s shuttered schools

Some Detroit developers are finding opportunity -- and potential profits -- in the adaptive reuse of shuttered schools.

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