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Listen: Detroit's Fitzgerald Neighborhood Gets Attention With Ambitious Fitz Forward Project

One of the popular narratives of Detroit’s comeback is that it doesn’t include the neighborhoods. But a program, Fitz Forward, is over by McNichols (Six Mile) and Livernois is solidly in the Detroit neighborhoods and there are big plans in motion.  You can listen to the story in the player above and there’s a map, pictures, and renderings below. There will be more than 300 parcels involved. More than 100 vacant, mostly historic homes will be repaired and remodeled. Those that can no...

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Event Space, "Taco Tuesdays" Planned For Six Mile In Detroit: "The Wildemere" Event Space To Open In May

A lot of attention is paid to the Greater Downtown area of the city of Detroit, but here’s more development news out of the neighborhoods. There is a new development news on West McNichols (otherwise known as 6 Mile) and Wildemere Street on the border of the University District and Martin Park neighborhoods. I spoke with Corey Williams who is one of the owners of Strategic Business Development, the group who bought the building in 2016.   According to Williams, they began renovating the...

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Neighborhoods Rising Summit To Offers Ideas, Tools, Actions To Transform Detroit

Every Detroit neighborhood must be livable, lovable and vibrant for our city to truly transform. Its future depends on it. Our neighborhoods are looking for ways to: Fight blight and crime. Set up strong block clubs. Find volunteers. Help youth find the right path. Find funding. Groom future leaders. Train for jobs. The 7th annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Rising Summit addresses these issues and more. It will be held Saturday, Nov. 5 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the downtown ca...

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When It Comes To Real Estate, Data Shows Two Very Different Detroits

Detroit has a hot market in the central core, but the city’s overall real estate market is still facing a lot of headwind. The gap is large. $429,000 units – like the new Selden development – are pre-selling available units out in mere days, and big-name folks like Tony Hawk are moving in while the city as a whole still is tied for the most unsold homes owned by banks and lowest median home price appreciation in the country, according to a new report out today by Wallethub.com. Detroit is al...

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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...

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Grandmont Rosedale Turns To Crowdfunding To Help Support Series Of Murals At Well-Loved Stoepel Park

One Detroit neighborhood group is taking to online fundraising to make a series of community-themed mosaics come to life. The Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation (GRDC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign raise funds needed for the installation of seven large mosaics onto the dugouts at Stoepel Park No. 1 in Northwest Detroit. The GRDC, a non-profit, has been a staple of this part of the city for 26 years. This project will beautify the park, attract new park users and increase the s...

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Meet The Wise Olayami Dabls And Visit His Incredible African Bead Museum

Olayami Dabls’ speech is concentrated in profound intelligence. And his voice is as powerful as his collection of beads and African art, largely collected from the bead people of Mali, West Africa. Through both mediums, he tells a story about sincerity guiding Detroit’s newer qualities, and the remarkable cornerstone for African culture, MBAD African Bead Museum. Dabls is owner and museum curator of MBAD African Bead Museum. He moved to Detroit with his parents from Mississippi because of the...

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She's Changing Detroit From The Inside: Meet "The Hope On Heyden"

On the Northwest side of Detroit, just east of Brightmoor, is Heyden Street. A tidy, fresh looking blue house on the street looks out of place in the mostly blighted neighborhood. It belongs to Lola Charles, who would probably tell you that her house looks the way it ought to. Charles runs a block club, called Hope on Heyden, and it is a great example of the essential and heroic efforts being made to stabilize neighborhoods by Detroit’s residents. I sat down with Lola and her daughter Savann...