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Jer Staes
Mack Avenue

21 Community Organizations In Detroit Get Grants From The Kresge Foundation

There are a lot of organizations in the city working to make their slice of the Motor City better, and the Kresge Foundation announced this week that they’ll be supporting their work with $1 million in grants. The grants will be used to help the operating expenses of the community development organizations over a three year period. “These three-year grants reinforce our top priority, which is spreading the energy of renewal to the city’s neighborhoods,” said Wendy Lewis Jackson, managing dir...

Jer Staes
DetroitMack AvenueSOMA

A New Development Called "SOMA" Is Coming To Mack And Woodward

The Detroit development scene isn’t immune from the national trends of renaming areas of cities with abbreviations. Meet the “SOMA District” standing for “South Of Mack Avenue” released in a new video teaser from Friedman Real Estate we’ve embedded above. With a name like “SOMA,” one can’t help but think of this snippet from South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXMWJyOdgw Let’s get into the details. * In total, it encompasses more than seven acres. * As part of the project, t...

Shianne Nocerini
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Pewabic Planning A 2,500 Square Foot Expansion, Currently Raising Funds

Detroit’s Pewabic is looking to expand their facility to double production capacity. The new expansion would be used for a 2,500 square foot tile studio. The new wing (in blue in the drawing below) will be located along Hurlbut Street and the alley. The building will be a single story, and is designed to match the historic character of the rest of the Pewabic campus. The renderings were designed by inForm Studio. The expansion will allow the artisans there the ability to double the prod...

Jer Staes
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One Of Detroit's Worst School Buildings Is Down The Street From A $365,085 Home Listing

Just yesterday we received a generic email about a newly redone property on Mack Avenue, listing at $365,085 for a 1,281 square feet 3-bedroom place. It even uses the superlative “magnificence.” And there’s no doubt, the place looks nice. But the address – 248 Mack – rang a bell, because there has been a lot of coverage of the problems happening at Spain Elementary in Midtown. That’s because Spain Elementary, a Detroit Public School, is basically across the street. We’ll get back to why t...

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