From Mackinaw City to Flint to Detroit, activists are using a combination of art and science to keep water issues in the public consciousness, address inequities, and collaborate on solutions.
East English Village, Bagley-Fitzgerald, and Grandmont-Rosedale all have three things in common: quality housing stock, neighborhood amenities, and affordable price points.
Centering the voices and concerns of residents is often an essential component of community development corporations, or CDCs. And this mission is becoming more important as Detroit transforms rapidly with development.
A crowdfunding campaign was launched to raise funds for the E. Warren Tool Library. Money will go towards purchasing tools, securing the building, and building out the space.
Pop-ups and partnerships. Events and experiences. In order to better understand how to make it in retail today, we talked to four Metro Detroit retailers to find out what it takes as a business owner in the 21st century.
Tammy Black is working to build a 400-square-foot, ADA-compliant treehouse for occupational therapy, counseling, and education in her Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood.
The grant will pay for the cost of preserving and interpreting a space in the Sweet house that will be open to the public for scheduled visits, and rehabilitating two additional properties across Garland Street.
The 12,000-square-foot Detroit Artists' Test Lab contains a professional photography studio, gallery, podcast studio, and private offices, with co-working space memberships starting in the fall.
Founded earlier this year, Detroit Hives hopes to eliminate blight in the city by repurposing vacant lots, promoting honey bee conservation, and educating the community about bee farming and the benefits of honey bees.
Detroit's Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, located at the intersection of McDougall and Larned streets on the city's east side, will soon receive a Citywide Poets site.
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