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.
When you look at a vast city like Detroit and environs, it’s only natural that an online community of arts, culture and civic-savvy bloggers and webmasters should thrive here. If we’re not driving in our cars, we’re sitting on our asses in cubicles or hatching plans in basements and home offices in far-flung corners of the city. The growing proliferation of blogs has touched even The Tubes of the Ren Cen with GM maverick VP of design Bob Lutz running (yes, it’s actually him posting and commenting) a wildly popular automotive blog.
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.
"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.
Despite its need to expand into a larger office space, Beyond Digital Studios, a year-old 3-D animation and digital media company, has no plans of leaving Detroit anytime soon. "The company wants to stay in Detroit and become a destination point for people in the industry like similar areas in Florida and California." says the article.
Redevelopment project expected to generate more than $10.7 million in private investment and create 100 new jobs.
Economic-development experts seem to agree: racial fighting blocks development. Diversity, on the other hand, can help spur it, says Keith Schneider, deputy director of the Michigan Land Use Institute.
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