Corktown

Model D TV: CreateHere rolls out ideas, action at Roosevelt Park

CreateHere, a nonprofit from Chattanooga, Tennessee, crunches good ideas and puts them to work. The group shot up to Corktown for a civic intervention in and and around Roosevelt Park over the weekend. Video producer Tom Hendrickson chased down co-founders Josh McManus and Helen Johnson for this episode of Model D TV.

The Young & Entrepreneurial: Q&A with Sarah Lapinski of Motor City Sewing and Design

Arty fashionista Sarah Lapinski's motor is always running. We see this Detroit dynamo wherever we go, her amp usually turned up to 11. She rocks, Jon Zemke rolls it out in this month's Q&A feature.

Ferretti’s Monumental Kitty sculpture makes its home in N. Corktown
Corktown Park gets made-over
2.5 miles of Michigan Avenue now sporting bike lanes
Profiling the “Disney-sized imagination” of Loveland’s Jerry Paffendorf
Community lot with 42 spaces opens in Corktown, servicing Slow’s and three yet-to-open businesses
Round-Up: Goods is open, Motor City Sewing moves to Corktown, Bronx debuts patio
Traditional N. Corktown pub, Nancy Whiskey’s, reopens
Greendome heads to Kickstarter to fund vision of off-grid geodesic greenhouse

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