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Video: Looking back on three years of Detroit innovation

For the past three years, our partners at Urban Innovation Exchange have been following hundreds of small projects making a big impact in Detroit. In this video, Detroit Lives! captures the essence of that work.

Video Hamtramck’s (revolver) restaurant might just blow your underpants off

A combination supper club and social experiment, (revolver) features a rotating host of chefs that changes each week, from home cooks looking to launch their own concept to seasoned professionals of national note looking to do something different and have a little bit of fun.

Model D TV: New signage lights up Avenue of Fashion

This neighborhood retail initiative led by the Detroit Lions and Hatch Detroit brings our video team back again to the upper Livernois commercial district for the final installment of this series of Model D TV. Shot and produced by DETROIT LIVES! 

Model D/UIX TV: Rebecca Willis and Bleeding Heart Design

Founded by Rebecca Willis, Bleeding Heart Design's goal is reimagine community spaces by what she calls visual real estate, with a healthy dose of altruism and selflessness. DETROIT LIVES! shot the piece for the Urban Innovation Exchange. 

Model D TV: Detroit Design Center sculpts new signage for Avenue of Fashion

A neighborhood retail initiative led by the Detroit Lions and Hatch Detroit brings our video team back again to the upper Livernois commercial district for this series of Model D TV episodes. Enjoy Part II produced by DETROIT LIVES! 

Model D TV: Back on Livernois with the Lions and Hatch Detroit

A neighborhood retail initiative led by the Detroit Lions and Hatch Detroit brings our video team DETROIT LIVES! back to the Avenue of Fashion for this series of Model D TV episodes. 

Model D TV: Tom Nardone and the Detroit Mower Gang

Literally a foot-to-the-pedal, dirt-inside-the-fingernails organization that helps keep playgrounds and other green spaces cut in Detroit, the Mower Gang is garnering national attention for its good work. DETROIT LIVES! produced the video. 

UIX TV: Khalil Ligon and LEAP

Khalil Ligon is project manager for the Lower Eastside Action Plan, a grassroots community organization that seeks to address land use issues and development planning in that Detroit neighborhood. DETROIT LIVES! provides the lights, camera, action.

Model D TV: Growing company Shinola

This high-flying company has 20 employees for watch assembly, and its bicycle division expects to produce 2,000 bikes each year. Shinola has an impressive one-two punch. DETROIT LIVES! shows us how it's all done in this video.

Model D TV: McClure’s Pickles

Our Growing Companies video crew stops into the newish manufuacturing facility of McClure's Pickles on the Detroit-Hamtramck border. Business looks to be booming on the assembly line. Take it from here DETROIT LIVES!

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