News from Detroit

Small businesses multiply, crime declines along Jefferson Avenue corridor

Crain's Detroit Business Friday, July 29, 2016

A recent article in Crain's Detroit Business details the rapid growth of five neighborhoods extending along Jefferson Avenue, stretching all the way to the Grosse Pointe border.

U.S. cities, Detroit included, are rethinking the alley

City Lab Friday, July 29, 2016

A recent article in City Lab explores the way cities, including Detroit, are creatively rethinking use of the alley.

Next High Growth Happy Hour focuses on real estate

Model D Friday, July 29, 2016

There's an opportunity to hear from two fast growing, local real-estate startups at the next High Growth Happy Hour on August 3 in Detroit’s North End neighborhood.

Article explores overlooked beauty of east riverfront housing

Hour Detroit Friday, July 29, 2016

Titled "Strait Outta Downtown," the article profiles apartments and houses in The Jeffersonian, "a 30-story, 410-unit midcentury masterpiece," and the Joseph Berry Subdivision.

Barbers and landscapers join forces to transform vacant city lots

Model D Friday, July 29, 2016

The Buzz organizers have partnered local barbers and landscapers to creatively maintain overgrown vacant lots throughout the city.

Belle Isle beautification efforts focus on fundraising events for fountain, community programming

Model D Friday, July 29, 2016

A couple fundraisers will take place on Belle Isle in August, including a one-time Detroit SOUP event.

DC3 launches Detroit City of Design initiative

Model D Friday, July 29, 2016

The Detroit Creative Corridor Center wants to help figure out how best to harness the Motor City's flair for design to improve its local economy. It's launching the Detroit City of Design initiative to make that happen.

Hatch Art launches fundraiser to save Hamtramck Disneyland

Hatch Art Friday, July 29, 2016

The Hamtramck art collective Hatch Art, using the local crowdfunding platform Patronicity, has launched a fundraiser to help save Hamtramck Disneyland, the famous folk-art site started in the backyard of Ukrainian immigrant Dmytro Szylak.

Lawrence Hunt signs Tigers catcher endorsement to power brand growth

Model D Friday, July 29, 2016

Lawrence Hunt needed a big name, but not too big, when it came to finding an endorsement for its clothing line. The name that fit that bill: James McCann of the Detroit Tigers.

Detroit Police Department to repurpose historic Old Redford Library building

Model D Thursday, July 14, 2016

Two buildings in Old Redford will be saved by converting them into a police precinct headquarters and community outreach center.

Developers take lead installing public art in downtown Detroit

The Detroit News Thursday, July 14, 2016

Public art is fast becoming part of Detroit's redevelopment. According to artist Nicole MacDonald, it's "all about empowerment."

Forward Cities nominee discusses scholarship for "mapping the world"

Aspen 82 Thursday, July 14, 2016

Detroiter Jerry Paffendorf of Loveland Technologies received a scholarship to the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival earlier this month.

Greening of Detroit program helps unemployed harvest careers

Model D Thursday, July 14, 2016

The Detroit Conservation Corps provides unemployed residents in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park job training and certification in the landscape industry.

Group seeks to make two streets temporarily car-free

The Detroit News Thursday, July 14, 2016

The organization Open Streets is applying for permits to convert stretches of Michigan Avenue and Vernor Highway into exclusively pedestrian and bike streets.

Stadt Garten, a pop-up beer garden, to debut in Midtown

Model D Thursday, July 14, 2016

The inaugural Stadt Garten, the first of several planned pop up beer gardens this summer, will take place in the yard of an 1880s Gothic-Victorian mansion in Midtown.