I Am Young Detroit creator Margarita Barry is herself a young Detroiter who chronicles other who are making a difference in the city. The self-proclaimed 'computer nerd' uses her web skills to showcase talented city dwellers under 40.
Whether it is on foot, by bus or via Segway, Inside Detroit has been showing newcomers, oldsters and out of town tourists a new side of the city. Now the nonprofit is adding human resources intros, a gift shop, music collection and a welcome center to its mission.
Robert Stanzler captures the city's legacy, its future and its spirit on canvases of 100 percent cotton. We catch up with the man behind Detroit Manufacturing, a guy who has spent more than a decade making Detroit cooler, t-shirt by t-shirt.
When the banks won't answer the door, the smallest of small businesses can go knocking on the doors of Detroit's microloan programs, which are changing the face of the city one coffee shop or high tech start up at a time.
If there's a cocktail to make true walkability, Detroit is low on some ingredients. But new projects and initiatives directed at transit, streetscaping and nonmotorized pathways are aimed at getting more people on their feet in the city.
Nonprofit group, which has planted about 60,000 trees since it was founded in 1989, hopes to reforest most of Detroit.
Our Partners
