Corktown

SimmerD: Serving up love (and PB&Js) at Corktown soup kitchen

Our food writer gets over a fine dining hangover by volunteering for service on the food line at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, which has been helping feed the needy since 1976. Noelle Lothamer reports from the inside.

Corktown roundup: business booming on Michigan Avenue
Crain’s 20-somethings reshape the D’s possibilities
NYT: 36 hours in the D gets it right
Master activator: Tony Goldman envisions Detroit as “capital of the experimental”

After a whirlwind three-day exploratory tour of Detroit, we catch up to New York developer-social entrepreneur Tony Goldman back home in his Soho office. Walter Wasacz gets an earful from the self-described street practitioner-urban theorist who has animated big city neighborhoods since the late 1960s.

DUST urban sustainability series kicks off
Talking about a more global Detroit: Model D Speaker Series in review

A crowd of about 75 people packed Hamtramck Public Library to listen to a panel talk about the importance of making Detroit a more welcoming place for immigrants. News editor Ashley Woods brings back some highlights from this hard-hitting discussion.

Spaulding Court’s first townhome for rent in North Corktown
Detroit tops Travel & Leisure’s list of “World’s Most Underrated Cities”
Taking root: Just in time for growing season, we begin series on urban farming in the D

Earthwork's Patrick Crouch is a busy guy, serving on food policy councils and collaborating with other players in Detroit's growing agricultural networks and projects. But not too busy to write about developments here getting attention around the world. Welcome aboard, friend.

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