Today, April 11, New Detroit is orchestrating a Community Investment
Tour of Woodbridge Estates, Core City Neighborhoods and Corktown that
will include neighborhood organizations, bankers and corporate leaders.
Dalton Roberson, program associate in economic equity for New Detroit,
explains his group’s goal by saying, “We want to be that organization
that brings a variety of entities together that will create the
‘perfect storm’ that will result in an increase of development and
investment for the city of Detroit.”
New Detroit hosts about three such tours a year. Past attendees include
bank presidents and corporate leaders such as Dave Bing. Each
neighborhood tour is le d by a representative from an
organization facilitating development in that particular neighborhood.
Roberson says, “We really encourage these [organizations] to talk about
what they’ve done and what they still want to do and identify what [the
tour participants] can do to make this happen.”
The morning starts off at the Village of Woodbridge Manor with
presentations from City of Detroit Planning and Development Department
and New Detroit before proceeding on to bus tours and development
walk-throughs of the three neighborhoods. Roberson notes how impressed
participants often are with the developments they tour. “The quality of
homes being built is tremendous. We want to facilitate relationships
that can lead to banks increasing their loan programs and entrepreneurs
identifying amenities that the community needs.”
Source: Dalton Roberson,
New Detroit
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