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Amanda Alexander, founder of the Detroit Justice Center

Restorative justice city: One woman’s quest to create a more just Detroit

The Detroit Justice Center will provide community legal services to underserved Detroiters, support other equity organizations, and promote "just city" initiatives with the ultimate goal of creating a more just Detroit.

Marsha Music at Bert's Market Place
Hipster history: Unpacking the stories of metro Detroit’s legendary cultural scenes

In an effort to savor the stories of our rich cultural past, but also to better understand our area today, we dug into the history of the vibrant scenes in Paradise Valley, the Cass Corridor, Ann Arbor, and Palmer Park.

Carl Nielbock, founder of C.A.N. Art Handworks
Detroit inventor, Eastern Market look to raise funds to install windmills

C.A.N. Art Handworks is looking to raise $25,000 in matching grants as part of a partnership with the Eastern Market Corporation to install windmills in the market. 

Lucy Frye, AKA Nandi, in her cafe
Our favorite stories from 2017

Before the year comes to a close, we'd like to look back on our last year of coverage.

Miryam Johnson
Dance instructor Miryam Johnson, 25, connects dancing to her students’ history and life

For the next entry in our emerging leaders series, we profile Miryam Johnson, a dancer and teaching artist with Living Arts who looks for ways to use dance to address larger issues with her students. 

Rebecca "Bucky" Willis
One Detroit resident’s mission to revitalize her neighborhood through human-centered design

Through her design nonprofit Bleeding Heart Design, Rebecca "Bucky" Willis creates small, impactful projects in her neighborhood that start dialogues and enact change. 

Abess Makki, founder of CityInsight
Thanks to a 24-year-old grad student, paying your water bill in Detroit has never been easier

A new portal and app has been created for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department so that customers can access and pay their bills online, with mobile devices, and even through Amazon's Alexa.

The partners of Century Partners (left to right: David Alade, Kim Dowdell, Andrew Colom)
Neighborhood-focused real estate firm Century Partners to be honored at TechTown awards

What's more remarkable than the speed with which Century Partners has achieved its success is the manner in which they've achieved it—though a holistic approach to neighborhood development.

Pamela Lewis
Opinion: Want to solve Detroit’s problems? Look to (and invest in) city residents

In an op-ed for Model D, the director of the New Economy Initiative argues that supporting residents and their ideas, rather than imposing top-down strategies, will ensure that revitalization efforts in Detroit are equitable and lasting.

North End developers Steven Harris of Rebound Construction and David Alade of Century Partners
Detroit’s equitable developers share strategies for making the city both prosperous and just

A number of companies, organizations, and professionals are eschewing a market-driven approach to development. Instead, they're thinking intentionally about the work.

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