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City Year Detroit Aims To Help Increase Graduation Rate of Detroit Public School Students

Education is crucial to the future of the city of Detroit. With that in mind, City Year Detroit is an organization primarily focused on bridging the gap between students of Detroit Public Schools and their staff members. Understanding what students really need and want to get out of their school will help the students’ ability to continue to higher education after high school. Although Detroit has improved their graduation rate from 64% to 71% in the last year, according to the CEPI reports...

Ardelia Lee
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Calling All Artists: Affordable Rent is Within Your Grasp

The Ponyride co-working space, a building and project specifically for social entrepreneurs and artists, is now accepting applications for new Applebaum Emerging Artist and Knight Artist Residency Programs. Three applicants will be awarded with $2,500 in funding, free rent at Ponyride, and a materials budget for the Applebaum Emerging Artist. An additional three artists will be awarded a total of $6,000 through the Knight Artist Residency Program. Ponyride already charges below market rent f...

Jer Staes
Bamboo DetroitCowowrkingDetroit

Detroit Co-working Space Makes List Of Top Spaces In America

Co-working is a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s been integral to many businesses getting off the ground, or being a place where solopreneurs (people who work for themselves) can get some work done without the distractions of home. It’s also, importantly, a place for connections and collaboration to help launch nascent businesses and take them to the next level. Detroit’s own Bamboo Detroit (which, disclosure, we’re a member of) was ranked as one of the top 100 co-working spaces in America...

Ardelia Lee
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10 Detroit Books You Should Read

Detroit is a city with a vibrant, intriguing story that spans centuries. From its humble beginnings to its time its recent resurgence, Detroit’s story has been traced in many books. Some books focus on the city’s rebirth. Others explore the dynamic sports teams that call Detroit home. Still others look at the city’s people and tell their everyday stories. A couple are fiction, but most in this list are not. Learn more about one of the most iconic American cities through these 10 books. The Or...

Ardelia Lee
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There Are Just A Few Days Left To Apply For $10k For Your Detroit Based Business

If you’re looking to get a big boost for your Detroit, Hamtramck or Highland Park based business, the window on getting your ticket to $10,000 is closing. NEIdeas, a program of the New Economy Initiative, is accepting applications for its $10k Challenge for businesses that gross under $750,000 as well as a $100k Challenge for business that gross between $750,000 and $5 million now. But we’re going to focus on what’s due Thursday (the $100k challenge isn’t due until the 25th of this month). N...

Jer Staes
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Opening Detroit's Formerly Closed Doors Using The Power Of Open Data

Detroit has been legendary in the past, in some respects, for all the wrong reasons. One of those reasons has been it’s historically been difficult to deal with city hall. One way to change that is to make data available to all, or what’s called in tech parlance “open data.” After all, data is knowledge, and knowledge is power. Initiatives like Loveland have given Detroiters a little taste of what’s possible with open data, but recently, the doors have flung open when it comes to getting infor...

Jer Staes
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Jack White Buys Building In Detroit, Will Open Branch Of Third Man Records

More big moves related to music and development in Motown. Jack White’s Third Man Records is now going to neighbor to the Shinola store, occupying the space currently held by Willy’s Detroit. Shinola Founder, Tom Kartsotis, partnered with Detroit native Jack White to purchase the building that currently houses the Shinola Flagship store at 441 W. Canfield in the Midtown/Cass Corridor area. The area has seen a retail resurgence as a true shopping district as of late. The deal marks new expans...

Jer Staes
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KABOOM! In Just Six Hours, Woodbridge Community Youth Center Gets New Playground And $10,000

Saturday wasn’t the sunniest, but the actions of Kaboom! and volunteers definitely made the Woodbridge neighborhood a little brighter. More than 280 volunteers descended on a lot on Canfield Street at the Woodbridge Community Youth Center to put together a playground and urban garden in just one day – six hours, in fact. To make that happen, they mixed 20,000 pounds of concrete, shoveled mulch, installed a fence surrounding the playground, painted art work and assembled a new playground...

Jer Staes
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Meijer News: Second Location In Detroit Opens June 11, Third Location On East Side In Early Stages

A few years ago, the talk was Detroit was a food desert with no chain grocery stories. But now, Grand Rapids-based Meijer is not only doubling, but looks like it is tripling down on the city of Detroit. June 11 (next Thursday) their new store under construction opens on the west side, and will feature 190,000 square feet of space as well as a gas station. It’ll be open at 7 a.m. daily and the exact address is 21431 Grand River Avenue. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is anticipated to attend the open...

Jer Staes

Checklist Challenge Encourages People To Explore 303 Of Downtown Detroit's Bars And Restaurants

Do you have a passion for a pint? A desire for a delectable dish? A burn for bistro? Today (June 1) The Detroit Experience Factory, a group that has taken more than 50,000 people on tours of Detroit since it launched in 2006, is bringing back their Checklist Challenge for the second year to inspire people to experience the 303 bars and restaurants on DXF’s Downtown Bars and Restaurants checklist. The Checklist Challenge is simple. The individual who visits the most places on the checklist be...

Mehul Tolia
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Things To Do In Detroit: Your City 5 For The Weekend Of May 29-31

Hopefully everyone has recovered by now from the Memorial Day long weekend festivities and is looking forward to what is in store this weekend.  This weekend seems to be offering a great variety of networking opportunities and to jump start career goals. Friday, Saturday, & Sunday: Startup Weekend Detroit for Social Entrepreneurs – You might be sitting on a great idea or business plan but haven’t been able to find the right resources or people to help you make it a reality.  This weekend, the...

Erika DeVriendt

Detroit Zoo Welcomes New 'Game of Thrones' Warthog Piglets

If anyone thought the Game of Thrones characters could take on animal form, well – the Detroit Zoo made it happen. Just this past April, quintuplet warthog piglets named after Game of Thrones characters, were born and are now ready to make their grand debut. (Photo: Detroit Zoo) The piglets – females Daenerys, Sansa and Cersei, and males Tyrion and Hodor – can be seen in their habitat near the Africa Train Station. Four of these rambunctious piglets are now pitter-pattering around...

Joel Gullickson
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5 Reasons Detroit's Movement Keeps The World Coming Back

Well, friends, it’s hard to believe, but another Memorial Day weekend has come and gone, and with it, another remarkable year of the Movement Festival. How the city opens its doors and turns loose for Movement each year is nothing short of extraordinary, and while there were a few hiccups this year – notably, unprecedented lines to get into the festival – in general, it was all smooth sailing and good hearted debauchery for festival patrons old and new. The magic of this weekend always leave...

Meghan Steingold

Negroni Week Hits Local Taverns With "Raise a Cocktail for a Cause"

For Negroni Week, Restaurants and bars across the country, and around the world, are raising their “Cocktails for a Cause” during the week of June 1-7. The Firebird Tavern, in particular, has chosen to support a local Detroit local charity. But, it can only succeed if we all drink. “Cocktails for a Cause” launched in 2013 by Imbibe Magazine and Campari. The event encourages establishments to raise money for a charity of their choice, while serving their unique variations of the Negroni cocktai...

Patrick McNamara
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PODCAST: These Two People Are Completely Transforming Detroit's Tech Landscape

If you could find two people who are irrevocably changing Detroit’s landscape as far as technology goes, you’d be hard pressed to find a more impactful pair than the CEO of Rocket Fiber Marc Hudson and Founder of Loveland Technologies Jerry Paffendorf. We caught up with them at the Mackinac Policy Conference and sat for an in-depth interview touching on a variety of Detroit-centric topics. After all, Hudson is doing what some thought impossible in bringing fiber speed internet to the city (...

Ardelia Lee
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Historic Belle Isle Shelter Renovated, Pedicab And Carriage Service To Start

Belle Isle’s historic bus stop shelter at the southeast corner of Inselruhe and Loiter Way has been renovated, just in time for summer. It will serve as a stop for Pedicabs and horse-drawn-carriages on the island. The Department of Natural Resources, the State Historic Preservation Office, and the Detroit Training Institute of Technology and its students worked together to give the shelter some much-needed TLC. The Detroit Training Institute of Technology is a trades school that combines tra...

Patrick McNamara
Auto TalentAutomotiveDetroit

Senator Gary Peters Pushing To Cultivate Talent for Auto Industry of the Future

It’s no secret that Michigan has a problem retaining the people who are educated here. U.S. Senator Gary Peters sat down with us to discuss the talent exodus in the state and what’s being done in Washington to reverse that flow. When we visited Chicago last month, it seemed that about 1 out of every 5 or so people we met were from Detroit. It’s a great world class city with tons to do, but there’s also great jobs and a robust economy that make the draw to move there very strong. The question i...

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