Can Farming Take Root In Detroit?

With an estimated 40,000 vacant lots, the question is immediate---what to do with it all? Detroit’s sparsely-populated expanses can be viewed as land of endless opportunity or a great burden, expensive for the city to service. As the city revitalizes, the use of open space to create parks, gardens, urban farms and forests could help put the city back on the map.

Thompson, Skillman foundations to team up on charter high schools in Detroit

Thompson and Skillman Foundations recently formalized their partnership to spend $200 million on building charter high schools in Detroit.  The first urban charter high school could open as early as 2006.

Detroit Agriculture Network shows off Detroit’s best gardens

Shop Your Block and enjoy the new developments along West Vernor

Here’s the scoop: Sanders to open 3 dessert shops

Teens use summer to help Detroit

Read about how some kids from Detroit and its suburbs, volunteered their time this summer painting elementary school gyms, tending gardens and helping third-graders read.

Counties come together in historic partnership to serve families in need

Detroit RiverFront Conservancy Receives $32 Million for East and West Riverfront Development

Detroit's Internation RiverFront will get a whole new look by 2007.  "The East Riverfront in the final design stage, and the West Riverfront is the second phase of the Conservancy's goal of a linked Riverfront from bridge to bridge -- and beyond." says the press release...

Ann Arbor-Detroit transit plan gets boost $100 million federal grant

"A rapid transit system between Ann Arbor and Detroit, long considered merely an expensive dream, has gained momentum with an expected $100 million in federal funding for an engineering study. " says the article...