Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez has come a long way from selling cheesecakes door-to-door in Southwest Detroit as a kid. Now the co-founder of Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week owns his own marketing agency and works toward bringing equity to minority- and immigrant-owned businesses: "I want to continue a legacy that doesn’t start or end with me.”
It's taken many hands to grow the community garden space in Yorkshire Woods, but the team behind the outdoors space know how important it is, especially during COVID-19, and show no signs of slowing: “In the last five years what we have done is given the community a place to be peaceful."
The community development corporation, which has brought a total of three parks to the neighborhood, is on a mission to build 20 public spaces by the end of 2025 in the community.
We Are Culture Creators, a nonprofit that offers arts and entrepreneurship programming for young men of color in Detroit, seeks to transform the vacant lots into La Esquina, a mini-market and arts enclave next to their headquarters on Bagley Street.
As local governments of Ferndale and Detroit team up to improve the Eight Mile and Woodward area, homeless people who stay there weigh in on what that future looks like.
Vacant lots transformed into flower gardens, a public cafe that provides job training for LGBTQ+ youth, and more neighborhood-based projects among the 28 selected in the sixth round of grants from the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit initiative.
Sandra Cavette is one of 1,048 homeowners in Detroit who have used a 0% interest home repair loan program to maintain historic properties throughout the city. Long-term residents like Cavette have seen the city through its ups and downs and are investing in its future through the program, which launched five years ago and has generated $10 million in funding.
Organizers for Salam Peace Park have until Saturday, Sept. 26, to raise $22,000 through a crowdfunding campaign. Should they reach their goal, the MEDC will then contribute an additional $22,000 as a matching grant.
Residents weighed in on projects that are underway, options for new projects, and events for community engagement.
From Greenlawn Avenue to the west to Livernois Avenue to the east, McNichols is set to undergo a transformation, incorporating a host of measures aimed to make the area safer for pedestrians and more appealing for businesses and their customers alike.
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