Small businesses to get boost through new city loan program
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick announced Thursday an new loan program for small businesses.
Woodbridge
Development’s Unsung Hero
Imagine a Detroit without the casinos, the new stadiums and the RiverWalk. Then take away the smaller projects, the new townhomes, lofts and homes. An unsung hero of urban revitalization, Cathy LaMont has had a hand in just about every major city development. She's built a business on chaning the face of Detroit, and she's found great success doing it.
Detroit’s neighborhood gas stations to be fuel-alternative pioneers
General Motors Corp.'s drive to put ethanol-based fuel in the tanks of more U.S. cars and trucks may transform Detroit's neighborhood gas stations and its drivers into pioneers in the use of the gasoline alternative.
CAID: Everyone’s House
By day, it's an art gallery. By night, it's a space dedicated to the flavor of the week: art, reggae, funk, techno. Woodbridge's CAID house is a place where grand ideas happen, where Detroit's most creative people gather, where art merges seemlessly with community.
UDM students building Woodbridge House using salvaged materials
Nine University of Detroit Mercy students have drawn up plans to build a house in Detroit's Woodbridge neighborhood using salvaged materials.
Kwame Kilpatrick: Growing the ‘Next Detroit’
Already this year, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has faced highs (the Super Bowl) and lows (battles over the zoo, water and budget); however, he tells Model D he's still on task to grow and transform the city — and how he plans to do it.
