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 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.
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.
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...
"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...
Detroit’s Wayne State University ranks #3 in the nation for student-rock ration.
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