$5.2M program aims to increase home ownership
The National Faith Home Buyers and Blight Busters have launched "Now's the Time to Buy Detroit," a $5.2 million fund intended to encourage home ownership in the city.
Near East Side
Detroit has long espoused the idea that its urban core could be designed in such a way as to allow the integration of affluent, working class, and low income people within a few blocks of each other. Immediately east of Lafayette Park reside people whose household incomes are lower than Lafayette Park, but the 1960s modern feel of the area offers a seamless flow to the historic Villages. Here, Martin Luther King, Jr., Elmwood, and other residential communities offer quality urban living with the same proximity to Eastern Market, downtown, and the riverfront as those in Lafayette Park. Mini-street malls support the needs of residents, from video rentals and fast food outlets to Walgreen’s and CVS drug stores. Close to East Jefferson’s retail strip, yet a few streets removed from the hustle bustle. Looking beyond this corner of the Near Eastside, north to 1-94 and east to McClellan, you have an area that is being redefined and redeveloped by grassroots organization trying to preserve what hasn’t been lost and build a new community in its place. To understand the Near Eastside, however, one needs to examine its local assets: schools, churches, neighborhoods, and parks.
Mayor to unveil economic stimulus plan
In a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick announced that he will unveil an economic stimulus plan that will include investments in new police and fire facilities, public works and neighborhood preservation among others.
Neighborhood success stories to be shared at Skillman Kids Matter Here Summit
The Skillman Foundation will share success stories from its Good Neighborhoods program at a Kids Matter Here Summit Jan. 26 at the Detroit Science Center.
Detroit residential sales continue uptick
Detroit residential home sales in November showed a four percent increase in comparison with 2006's numbers. This is significant considering the decrease in sales everywhere else in Metro Detroit.
Great Groceries
The questioning suburbanite asks the Detroiter, "But where do you shop for groceries?" Here's where.
Buy Detroit, Build Detroit
Avoid the meter maid's boot and save some loot when you shop the city this holiday season.
Detroit ranks 64 on list of world’s most livable cities
Using data from 39 quality-of-life issues from 215 cities around the world, an international consulting company has ranked Detroit 64 on its list of the 100 most livable cities.
Growing Detroit Retail
A D.C.-based nonprofit has some shiny new numbers that could mean exciting things for Detroit's retail prospects. Read about it here, and see for yourself at our Speaker Series Nov. 14. Sign up today.
The 3 R’s in the D
More Detroiters are learning the three R's — reduce-reuse-recycle — prompting private groups and city officials to look at more options to keep refuse away from the big burn.
Let the Artists Loose
At his Liberal Arts Gallery, Duane Belin lets the artists go to town and hold nothing back. Want to hang thousands of shoes from the roof? No problem.
