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Vacant for more than 20 years, the Treymore finds new life as affordable housing

There’s a lot of talk on the high price end about Detroit real estate as of late, especially in the Midtown neighborhood. But here’s something different. The four-story Treymore building just went through a $7 million redevelopment project and now has 28 one and two bedroom apartments for low income occupants. The 1900s era building on Brainard had been abandoned for more than 20 years before Paradise Valley Investment Group (PVI) stepped up and bought the building for renovation. “Rest...

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Oakland Avenue Urban Farm to add hostel, dining hall, gallery and more as part of new food and culture hub

Detroit’s farming and culture scene continues to grow. Thanks to $500,000 in funding from ArtPlace America, the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm over the next two years is going to transform in what organizers are naming America’s first “Agri-Cultural” urban landscape. The project will start in January of 2017 and when they’re done, the plan is to have a five acre landscape combining “art, architecture, sustainable ecologies, and new market practices while exploring methods for equitable, art-centere...

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Miniature golf course on verge of being built in Detroit's North End neighborhood

Up on Oakland Avenue and Clay, it looks like seven vacant lots in the city of Detroit are about to be turned into a miniature golf course. There’s a crowdfunding campaign that was launched Thursday to raise the final $5,000 required for 4Ward Phoenix Miniature Golf, described as a safe and secure 18-hole mini golf course with ample parking, lighting and benches. If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding goal of $5,000 by January 16, 2017. Who is putting this thing together is a bit unique. Th...

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Detroit's getting a new "Agrihood," looks to transform neighborhood through sustainability

This latest project in Detroit’s North End ties neighborhood growth along with agriculture. One of the more interesting storylines in Detroit’s transformation has been the rise of urban agriculture. The variety of uses of land across the city — and what is going to happen to them long term — is constantly evolving. Totaling about three acres and nestled in a neighborhood among vacant land, occupied and abandoned homes, The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) urban “agrihood” as they cal...

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Check Out The New North End Career Center That Plans To Train 700 People Per Year

Detroit’s North End is home to a brand new career center that will help bridge the gap between poverty and jobs for high risk Detroiters. The North End Career Center will house the Goodwill Detroit’s Flip the Script and Center for Working Families programs. It is estimated that the North End Career Center will help train 700 mostly at-risk people each year, including residents with challenges related to literacy, a criminal background and/or a lack of education. “Here in the North End we...

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New $2 Million Center In North End To Help Detroiters Learn Financial Literacy, Get Jobs

Good news for a well-known Detroit nonprofit and a vacant building in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. This week word came that a building at 2777 East Grand Boulevard will be renovated by September and be used as the Goodwill Industries North End Workforce Readiness Center. It will house both job readiness and financial training programs. It took a $2 million agreement between various for profit and nonprofit partners to make the rehab possible of the 10,000 square foot structure owned by...