Woodbridge puts finishing touches on neighborhood development strategy

The Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp. is wrapping up work on its neighborhood development strategy in collaboration with University of Detroit Mercy's Detroit Collaborative Design Center. The organization prefers referring to their document as a "strategy" as opposed to a "master plan" so as to remain open to future possibilities.

The strategy has three goals: to create a place that celebrates arts and culture, a become a place of innovation and "taking risks" and a remain people-centered community.

After an exhaustive planning process that included stakeholder input, the creation of narratives and examination of current strengths, the organization selected three areas of focus.

The first is the Artists' Triangle, centered around the Grand River and Warren intersection, which will capitalize on the 4731 and 555 Galleries, the Architectural Salvage Warehouse and the building that WNDC hopes to turn into an incubator.

The NW Triangle will develop infill housing north of Merrick, first to be populated with WNDC's affordable sustainable replicable housing prototypes. Finally, the Trumbull Commercial Corridor will focus on attracting retail to, well, Trumbull.

The finishing touches are being put on the strategy documents, and WNDC will present them to the public this spring.

Source: Graig Donnelly and Ed Potas, WNDC
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh