No community-based project is too small for this unique, independent downtown firm, which combines market research with urban planning and economic growth strategies. Dennis Archambault gets inside the matrix to show us how it all gets done -- and what it must do to keep the innovative work going.
This far East Side Detroit neighborhood is making strides as a combo commercial-residential area, expanding beyond the business district at Jefferson and Chalmers to include the Conner Creek Greenway, which will extend from the river to 8 Mile when it's completed. Dennis Archambault reports on the progress.
Largely reared in the suburbs, young Jews are inspired by cultural and religious history and the promise of building new social networks in the city. Dennis Archambault reports from the intersection of the past and the future.
Families that study together not only learn together but strengthen bonds between parents and children -- and make dinner conversations much more interesting. Dennis Archambault went out looking for success stories and found them in this report.
Who better to agitate and navigate Detroit's transition from past manufacturing titan to a future of endless creative endeavor then members of a neo-utopian research team from the Netherlands? Writer Dennis Archambault sees ideas turn to action before his eyes in this report.
Urban agriculture is more than just about farming. Much more. Detroiters Bill and Billie Hickey moved from Green Acres to the wide open spaces of Brightmoor, where they see an opportunity to cultivate community life and grow economic justice. Not to mention 24 varieties of fruits and vegetables. Dennis Archambault puts on his rubber boots and reports from the pumpkin patch.
Accolades follow as they travel the globe, but Detroit's high school band directors make a lot of magic happen here at home, using music to help shape their students' futures.
Searching for a plan for rightsizing, downsizing, resizing, shrinkage, or whatever you want to call it? Detroit community development professionals have detailed a road map for transforming the face of Detroit.
Developers and Detroit development officials have big dreams and big hopes for the Capitol Park area downtown. From a restoration of the park to new offices, lofts to places of cultural interest, this could be the city's next development hot spot.
With arts companies already 'living on the knife's edge," as one director put it, what's a Detroit theater company to do? Get creative, change things up, remain vital and vibrant, think viral, and keep telling great stories.
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