Southwest Detroit

Shop Your Block and enjoy the new developments along West Vernor

A nineteen year community tradition, ‘Shop your Block” will bring crowds along West Vernor Highway in Southwest Detroit. On August 5th, from 12 noon to 6 p.m., and on August […]

Teens use summer to help Detroit

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.

Ann Arbor-Detroit transit plan gets boost $100 million federal grant

"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...

Main Street Detroit Takes Shape
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Let’s Move Past Race

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.

Redevelopment effort in neighborhoods paying off
DTE Energy Foundation Grant to Help Build Gateway to Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge

 

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