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Amanda Brewington outside her coffee shop, Always Brewing Detroit, soon after opening

Voices: Former owner of Always Brewing Detroit on letting go of her business

Amanda Brewington put everything she had into Always Brewing Detroit before selling it last year. In part two of our series on empowering failure, she writes about the experience of letting her business go.

Artistic rendering of the Motown Movement house
Placemaking in the city: Kite festival, innovation center, sustainable living, and public art

A spate of exciting placemaking projects have been announced this month, each seeking to improve city life through placemaking and community-building practices and projects.

Jacob Bishop, Co-President and Co-CEO of Elite Mr. Alan’s
If you don’t evolve, you die: How Jacob Bishop re-energized the Mr. Alan’s brand

Mr. Alan's is now Elite Mr. Alan's, a place for finding the latest trends in shoes and clothing, not just the best bargains.

Tom Goddeeris, executive director of the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation
Future Grandmont-Rosedale food hall could be huge boon for neighborhood
Small business contest seeks applicants for $50,000 award

Now in its sixth year, Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest rewards entrepreneurs on the path to opening brick-and-mortar storefronts in either Detroit, Highland Park, or Hamtramck with a $50,000 cash prize and a number of other benefits. 

Two new placemaking projects launched on city’s east and west sides
Clement Brown, Jr.
Two stores, one in Grandmont Rosedale and one on East Jefferson, to open on 313 Day

This 313 Day, two businesses will be celebrating their grand openings, each of them participants in TechTown's SWOT City entrepreneurial training program.

A new roof on the Hunter House
Motor City Match seeks business and commercial property owners for third round of grants

There are four major award categories for which business and property owners can apply for a share of $500,000 in grant funding.

Jeff Adams stands between the growing racks at Artesian Farms
Artesian Farms’ produce production ramps up as temps drop

Artesian Farms Detroit took over an old industrial building at 12843 Artesian last year and turned it into a facility that could support vertical farming.

Linda Smith, director of U-SNAP-Bac
The evolution of community development in Detroit: Three leaders talk about their work.

Many of Detroit's community development corporations, or CDCs, find themselves operating in different conditions today than when they were founded. Model D spoke with the leaders of three longstanding CDCs in different parts of the city to see how their work is evolving.

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