Welcome to the City 5 weekly event round up. This week we’re bringing you a smattering from around the metro area, and we’re delivering it a little bit early because of the short holiday week. For more details on the event such as exact times and locations, click...
A big discussion online in Detroit right now is highlighted in this segment (we’ve embedded the episode below and you can watch it here) from Flashpoint on WDIV-TV4. They invited two bloggers on the show who have opposing viewpoints on perception Detroit’s recent economic developments. Both guests wrote...
Turning up Second avenue from Selden, which has recently become a two-way street, vehicles parked tightly on either side of the road were shepherded by a security car in the middle lane with its orange beacon light rotating slowly. It’s a welcome measure for the patrons of Selden Standard,...
Yesterday we posted about “The Wig,” a skatepark being brought to fruition by Community Push and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Today, the fundraising campaign has been suspended indefinitely because the City of Detroit has sold the Wigle Recreation Center to developers, which apparently has been the goal for the...
The group Community Push adopted the Wigle Recreation Center park over the summer. They adopted the park at 801 Selden in Midtown from the Detroit’s Parks and Recreation Department and are turning it into a community skate park. The skate park, which will attract local skateboarders, bmxers, and inline...
In 2010 American Express founded Small Business Saturday to encourage more people to shop at small businesses around the country on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The day has turned into a movement of sorts, and it’s something that resonates in Detroit’s small business community. This video helps illustrate...
The 9th Annual Veterans Day Parade in Detroit, which was held on Saturday, November 8 drew more than 3,100 participants. This year the parade was a special commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The parade went from the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 9 down Woodward...
Charlie LeDuff’s series on Fox News called “The Americans” takes him around the country in search of who we really are. He talks to interesting people and gets into interesting situations. His latest episode brings him back to Detroit, where he follows up on a story of a known...
We reported on Michele Oberholtzer’s fundraising initiative known as the Tricycle Collective early last month. The effort helps to keep 10 Detroit families in their homes by contributing $500 toward the purchase of the homes that were for sale in the Wayne County Tax-Foreclosure Auction. Here’s an update....
Remember when J.P.Morgan Chase announced back in May that it would be committing $100 million to Detroit? Well they are now rolling out the programs that are part of that commitment. They announced a 5 year program that sends teams of employees to Detroit to help nonprofits bust...
In 2006 Dimitri Hegemann resurrected a defunct an old power plant called Mitte that once provided energy for the side of Berlin inside of East Germany. Inside of what is now called Kraftwerk Berlin, he reopened his techno club Tresor which had previously resided in a bank vault (Tresor is...
Detroit’s Angels’ Night Campaign kicks off tomorrow on Wednesday October 29 and goes through Friday, October 31. Angels’ Night is the community’s response to Devil’s Night (typically the night before Halloween) tradition of arson, mischief, and vandalism that became a problem in Detroit. Angels’ Night was organized...
Where the government doesn’t have something Detroiters want, they tend to make it themselves. The excellent Detroitography site has created a map that shows the positions of Detroit buses that are currently in service. The map is fun to look at, and gives you an idea if the bus...
The Kresge Foundation has created a $5 million, three-year initiative to fund nonprofits working in neighborhoods across the city. The initiative, called Kresge Innovation Projects: Detroit will provide (in the first round) between $50,000 and $150,000 each for seven to 10 shovel-ready projects that can be completed in...
The 7th annual World Zombie Day Walk happened again on October 12th, and they posted a video to prove it. Zombie Walk Detroit is an event that occurs around World Zombie Day (which is October 7th in case you weren’t aware). This year the walk was a combination celebration...
MyLocker is a thriving e-commerce business that is moving its headquarters from the suburb of Warren, Michigan to a 120,000 square foot facility in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. What is MyLocker? It is a site where individuals and organizations can make their own custom gear like t-shirts, hats, backpacks,...
A plan to combat blight in 12 Michigan cities was approved for $75 million in Federal funding by the U.S. Department of Treasury. The plan, created by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), will help five cities in Wayne County including Detroit, Ecorse, Highland Park, River Rouge, Inkster...
On Saturday, the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts and Music Festival gave us a chance to check out what the artists, writers, and musicians in the city are up to. For an area of only 2.02 square miles, in which a total of 26 languages are spoken, Hamtramck might be the...
