News from Detroit
The downtown Detroit-based startup is commercializing a filtration technology that opens up the earth’s natural ground filtration system to clean water.
Corktown's Ponyride is many things – a co-working space, a business incubator, a production space for social enterprises, and a carpentry workshop, to name a few. This summer, you can add artist residency program to the list.
Last week, Model D editor Matthew Lewis and contributor Beth Szurpicki appeared on Michigan Radio's Stateside program to discuss the possibility of re-imagining I-375, America's shortest signed Interstate that runs through the near east side of downtown Detroit.
For the last 75 years, Grace Lee Boggs has been a leader in the labor, black power, and civil rights movements in the city and beyond, influencing generations of activists along the way. Celebrate her 100th birthday with a party on June 26 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Midtown.
The thinking goes that city IDs help people who have difficulty presenting documents typically required for obtaining state IDs, namely undocumented immigrants, the recently incarcerated, and homeless people. More recently, however, city ID cards have become ways for municipalities to express gender sensitivity to their residents.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has added two more Detroit placemaking projects to its Public Spaces Community Places initiative. An events venue in southwest Detroit and a community garden in a northwest playground will receive sizable grants from the MEDC should each of them meet crowdfunding goals.
Neighborhood residents and various organizations have been vocal in their concerns that efforts to widen I-94 will result in the displacement of residents and businesses. Officials insist that their goal is to minimize any displacement and keep as much of the construction within the Interstate's existing footprint as possible.
Haag describes 3030 as a craft consultancy that specializes in everything from energy efficiency to tax work for distilleries.
Each Detroiter will receive $5,000 for their project as well as training and support from professional mentors.
New Center Park's summer season kicks off on Wednesday, June 3, with a screening of local film "Detroit Unleaded" in conjunction with the Cinetopia International Film Festival.
It's farmers market season in the city of Detroit. The northwest side is celebrating the return of its own annual market Thursday, June 4.
Sales of Rebel Nell's jewelry have doubled each year since its launch. So far the company has hired five women out of homeless shelters and employs a total staff of seven people.
Skidmore Studio has carved out an interesting niche for itself over the last year, taking on a growing amount of work for entertainment brands like Dave & Busters.
"We have more than 700 companies signed up to test our platform," says Brian Bosche, co-founder & CEO of Slope.
In a recent feature for the Detroit Free Press, John Gallagher reminds us that "it takes more than a clever idea or catchy product to make a go of a small business in Detroit."