Woodbridge puts vision for neighborhood on display at 4731 gallery

The Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation (WNDC) will kick off a neighborhood strategy exhibit called LEVERAGE: the Woodbridge Connection
on Friday May 2 from 6-8 p.m. at the 4731 Gallery. The next day, the gallery will host a fundraiser for the Woodbridge Springfest from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. featuring a silent auction, food, drink and music.

LEVERAGE will showcase the neighborhood framework plan that WNDC developed in collaboration with the with the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy. It will remain installed at 4731 for the entire month of May.

"The idea is to make it very accessible to as wide a variety of people as possible," says WNDC executive director Graig Donnelly. "We want to take people through from the neighborhood that haven't been a part of process, potential funders, folks from banks. ... We can sit down with the display surrounding us."

Donnelly believes that the breadth and depth of LEVERAGE merits more than the typical single event. "This is really a vision of the future of the entire neighborhood," he says. "This is the framework for everything."

For more information, call 313-887-9699 or visit WoodbridgeNeighborhood.org.

Source: Graig Donnelly, WNDC
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh