“The Southwest Greenway will make it easy and fun for people living and working on the west side of Detroit to get to the Detroit Riverfront,” says Matt Cullen, chairman, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.
Detroit-born Khalid el-Hakim’s mobile museum has evolved into one of the biggest collections of African American history and artifacts in the country. Now the pioneer in Black Museum Studies is touring Michigan, from Bloomfield Hills to Beaver Island.
Community and business leaders, both local and international alike, gathered in Corktown this past Thursday, Aug. 5, to celebrate the opening of the new Chase Bank Community Center, the first such center in Detroit and just the seventh in the country.
These upcoming market spaces could be be boon for people-of-color-owned businesses in a historic Detroit neighborhood.
Through a partnership with the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, an equitable development scorecard is under development and will be used to determine what gets built at 14th and Dalzelle.
From historic low mortgage rates to virtual tours, COVID-19 has dramatically changed the home-buying process. Realtors tell Model D about the trends they're seeing — and where to buy.
From handmade jewelry to works of art, find some gift inspiration with these locally focused shopping events and guides.
Efforts to grow Eastern Market while still retaining its food industry roots took another step forward last week as the Michigan Economic Development Corporation awarded the City of Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority a $75,000 site readiness grant as part of the Michigan Build Ready Sites program.
Five residential projects, three new developments and two redevelopments, will either create or preserve a total of 282 units of affordable housing throughout different areas of the city.
Detroit entrepreneur Deirdre Roberson doesn't fit a mold. And the scientist-turned-fashion-designer doesn't want you to, either. “People will say to me ‘you look like a model,’ but why did nobody ever tell me ‘you look like a scientist’? We are complex. We are multidimensional people.”
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