17 Restaurants and only six days left. Where will you eat During the city's inaugural Restaurant Week? Model D TV has visited several of the 17 restaurants feature. Check them out before you head out this week. And see where other readers are going on our Facebook discussion page.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing lays out a blueprint for the city in four points: Cooperation, Opportunity, Responsibility, and Education.Excerpt:"There are a lot of people who feel that Oakland County led by (County Executive L. Brooks Patterson) is our enemy. They are one of our greatest assets. Oakland County is still, I think, the second wealthiest county in the country. They've got some smart people; they've got some good people. A lot of those people were either born in Detroit or grew up in Detroit or were educated in Detroit and moved out for a lot of different reasons. They are not our enemy."The city of Detroit often sees itself in a vacuum against other municipalities in the area. I believe that in order for us to come back -- survive and thrive -- we're going to have to open up our mind-set and not think that we're the elephant in the room all the time."Read the entire article here.
Open City, Detroit's forum for aspiring retailers and small business owners, started their third season of talks last week with the Model D speaker series.Click here to see photos from the event.Meetings are the third Tuesday of the month at Cliff Bell's. Read more about Open City here.
With the Detroit Passport to the Arts you'll be able to see six performances presented by seven metro Detroit cultural organizations. The passport also brings a long an evening of insider events like wine tastings, dance lessons, or guest speakers. There are less than 100 left at the price of $109.To get your DP2A go here.
Women's Radio News interviews Christine Rice, president of VisionIT, an IT staffing and managing service. VisionIT was also named by Business Week as the fastest growing inner-city company in the United States.Listen to the broadcast here.
The documentary "Grown in Detroit," about growing movement of urban agriculture and harvesting for profits, will air on Detroit Public Television on Sept. 22 at 9 p.m.The doc features the Catherine Ferguson Academy of Detroit, an alternative high school for young women, and their gardening/farming program.To watch the trailer and for more information about the documentary go here.
Economist magazine has ranked Detroit the seventh best city for business travel in the world. The city placed among fine company, just behind Vancouver, Toronto, Adelaide, Honolulu, Perth, and Auckland, beating out Atlanta, Montreal, and Vienna in the top ten.
Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs writes about Detroit's 'quiet revolution' dealing with urban agriculture and reconnecting with the community through Detroit Summer.Excerpt:Detroit's local foods movement has been a catalyst in the [r]evolution that is rebirthing Detroit as a City of Hope. The city's early devastation by deindustrialization provided us with the space and place to begin anew. It also challenged us to make a paradigm shift in our thinking about social justice.Our [r]evolution began in the 1980s with African-American elders. Raised in the South, these "Gardening Angels" could see Detroit's vacant lots not as blight but as opportunities to grow our own food and also help urban youth understand the importance of self-reliance.Read the entire article here.
Detroit's historic Capitol Park at State Street and Griswold Avenue will soon be re-born as a leisure destination after years of serving as a major transit hub. The Downtown Development Authority, in collaboration with the Downtown Detroit Partnership, has launched a $1.1 million renovation that will make the park visitor-friendly and serve as a potential anchor to attract news businesses to the area.
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