Detroit Student Takes Flight: How DPSCD’s Davis Aerospace Is Turning Dreams Into Careers
This year, Herbert Anderson became Davis Aerospace Technical High School's first student to complete a solo flight since 2015.
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Vacant house could soon become innovative Solar Training House in Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood
“Innovative thinking coming out of Detroit's eastside neighborhoods is nothing new,” says Dan Gilmartin, CEO and Executive Director of the Michigan Municipal League.
Resilient Neighborhoods: New Detroit grocery store leans into family and community to promote health
Founder Raphael Wright and his nephews, Kevante "KG" Grimes and Kieve Grimes, hope their familiarity with one another will engage consumers throughout the store. Walking distance from hundreds of Jefferson Chalmers homes, Neighborhood Grocery aims to be a place where residents can access food staples, local products, and fresh produce while connecting with neighbors.
This Detroit nonprofit is taking a novel approach to affordable housing: Landlord-occupied duplexes
Abandoned duplexes dot the Detroit landscape, and they can be harder to bring back than single-family homes. Thankfully, however, that challenge is sparking new innovative strategies.
Mapping Detroit: How the city’s home improvement stores are ‘agents of knowledge’
With an average construction age of 70+ years, Detroit homes need a special kind of love. It's why the city's home improvement stores are often local, and connected to the residents they supply. Here's the story their geography tells.
Detroit’s hottest residential neighborhoods in 2023, according to realtors
Despite a cooling housing market, real estate agents in Detroit say due to low inventory, move-in ready houses near the city’s historic neighborhoods and thriving commercial corridors are still a hot buy.
New pilot program to transform five Detroit alleyways into public art destinations
“The Covid-19 pandemic showed us the importance of safe, accessible green spaces in our neighborhoods,” says Rochelle Riley, Director of Arts and Culture for the City.
New grant to help homeowners clean up basement flood damage
“As flooding events become even more frequent, further shining a light on Detroit’s outdated infrastructure, it’s extremely important that we continue to work with our partners in the event of another overwhelming rainfall,” says JEI CEO Josh Elling.
New $250K grant to help East Jefferson residents repair/replace furnaces damaged by 2021 floods
Jefferson East, Inc. estimates that at least 160 homes are currently in need of furnace repairs, a result of last year’s historic rainfall.
Mobile museum sees Black history on the move in Michigan
Detroit-born Khalid el-Hakim’s mobile museum has evolved into one of the biggest collections of African American history and artifacts in the country. Now the pioneer in Black Museum Studies is touring Michigan, from Bloomfield Hills to Beaver Island.
