Features

The first school: expanding access to quality daycare in Detroit

Claire Charlton Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Quality childcare benefits Detroit’s working parents today, as well as the workforce of tomorrow. Claire Charlton looks at the importance of daycare and early childhood education, and efforts to expand access in the city.

Clearing the air: Health professionals tackle Detroit's asthma epidemic

Aaron Mondry Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Detroit has one of the highest rates of asthma in the country. That's why some of the city's most important health professionals are taking action by studying the problem, and finding ways to address it.

Erica Pietrazyk of Pietrazyk Pierogi at the Painted Lady

Hamtramck's dive bar-pop ups serve the best food you've yet to try

Tom Perkins Tuesday, December 20, 2016

In Hamtramck, a working class city with a no-frills approach to food, some impressive cooks are popping up. And they're doing so in a Hamtramck staple: the dive bar.

Hamtramck

Michigan tree farms keep Christmas real

Anne Hamming Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Michigan tree farms are the place to make Christmas memories and part of Michigan's growing agritourism economy.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Detroit high school students learn how to build green infrastructure in Cody Rouge's Stein Park

Brian Allnutt Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The bioswale at Stein Park was designed and built with high school students from the Detroit Institute of Technology to capture water from roadways and infiltrate it into the ground, keeping it out of the city's sewer system.

Grandmont Rosedale

Detroit's reuse economy is turning the city's trash into treasure

Patrick Dunn Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Illegal dumping, abandoned buildings, and other sources of trash are serious problems in Detroit. Fortunately, multiple businesses and nonprofits are coming to the rescue by turning the city's refuse into something useful.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Digging deep: Detroiters work to clean up city's toxic soil

Nina Ignaczak Tuesday, December 20, 2016

As development ramps up in Detroit, understanding what lies beneath our feet is key to the future.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Institutions of higher education an essential part of Live6 growth

Terryn Hall Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The University of Detroit Mercy and Marygrove College have been important neighborhood anchors since their foundings. And with increased attention to development in the neighborhoods outside of the city center, they'll be more important than ever.

Palmer Park / University District

Takyhai Burns and Jacob Schoenknecht making Mitten Bites

Thinking like a boss: Detroit programs empower youth through entrepreneurship

Muna Danish Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Entrepreneurship programs across the city engage youth in hands-on, place-based entrepreneurial training, equipping them to both launch their own businesses and use entrepreneurial thinking to solve problems.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

A bigger dig: How GM saved millions by reusing stormwater in Detroit-Hamtramck

Patrick Dunn Monday, December 05, 2016

The General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is recycling its own stormwater at an annual savings of over $2 million with green infrastructure.

Hamtramck

Starlett Simmons (right) of Five Star Cake Co. with her daughter, Kai Taalib

Entrepreneurship and motherhood: Family first

Melinda Clynes Monday, December 05, 2016

Despite all the time required to start and run a business, mother entrepreneurs often do so because it counterintuitively allows them to get closer to their family.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Stephen Roginson of Batch Brewing Company

A fermenting culture: Detroit food businesses harness the science (and flavor) of fermentation

Sarah Rose Sharp Monday, December 05, 2016

Fermentation is an ancient form of preservation that's being popularized for its unique flavor and health properties. Many food businesses in Detroit are likewise finding new uses for this old technique.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Chase Cantrell, director of Building Community Value

Combating income inequality: 3 local, practical solutions to a national epidemic

Aaron Mondry Monday, December 05, 2016

Metro Detroit has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the nation, which is a huge problem for the region's future prosperity. But there are positive, incremental steps Metro Detroiters are taking in their communities that can make a real difference.

Woodbridge, Hamtramck, Southwest, Corktown, Palmer Park / University District, The Villages, Lafayette Park, Grandmont Rosedale, Eastern Market, Midtown, New Center, Downtown

Rachel Jones, a senior at the Henry Ford Academy School For Creative Studies in Detroit

The Henry Ford Academy's senior mastery process helps students own their future

Andy Reid Monday, December 05, 2016

The Senior Mastery Process gives high school students at the Henry Ford Academy a hands-on opportunity working for a business or organization to help answer the age old question, "What do I want to be when I grow up?"

Midtown