The Downtown Detroit Partnership is a partnership of public and private agencies. Membership includes the Detroit Economic Growth ...
Downtown Detroit Partnership
Class, race, and housing in Detroit
The 2013 Detroit Mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2013. The primary election will be held ...
2013 Detroit Mayoral Election
WXYZ
Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative
Hantz Farms
1217 Griswold
Warren Evans was police chief from ??-?? Consent Decree According to the City FAQ, Mayor Dennis Archer requested ...
Detroit Police Department
Marathon Petroleum Co.
Jefferson Avenue
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Bookies Club 870
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Current 3408 MSU Detroit Center 3711 Orchestra Hall 3750 China One restaurant 4454 MOCAD art museum 4717 Bob's ...
Woodward Ave
Former top lawyer for the City of Detroit. Was replaced by Dave Bing and the City Council for ...
Krystal Crittendon
Visger Street
Hired by Interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Fired by Dave Bing. Official City Biography Police Chief James R. ...
James R. Barren
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Chief of the Detroit Police Department. Follows Warren Evans in the position. Promoted from Assistant Police Chief in ...
Ralph Godbee Jr.
Published history Celebrating Two Centuries of Michigan Newspapers A brief history of newspapers in Michigan. link. On guard, ...
History of Detroit Newspapers
Garden Theatre
Barsamian Preparatory Center
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
Stars Mural
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary Brown
Detroit Streetcars
I-375
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
Orchestra Hall
Community Development Corporations in Detroit. Here's a Google Map of CDCs Abayomi CDC -- Abayomi CDC Bridging Communities, ...
Community Development Corporations
The Gnome
Blue Skeleton
Jefferson East Business Association
Aretha Franklin - Fel'le Gallery
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
Paradise Theatre
Legend's Pizza Mural
Cheap / free ThinkDetroit weblog has a post about two ways; set up a small horseshoe rink! Plant ...
Empty lot projects
The Kresge Foundation has taken an active role in major Detroit-area development projects. They provided the early major ...
Kresge Foundation
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
Flower Frame Mural
M@dison Building
Introduction The Detroit Sound Consortium is a potential project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy begun in May 2013 ...
Detroit Sound Consortium
A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell. 2009 ...
Recent stories about Detroit
Sunshine
M-1 RAIL
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Detroit Entertainment Commission
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
Roasting Plant
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
Great Lakes Coffee
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
La Dozena Donut
Trade Winds Mural
Nain Rouge
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
The park in front of Michigan Central Station. Being revitalized by a number of partners under the name ...
Roosevelt Park
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
A charter operator authorized by the Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency. In June 2011, the Academy was chosen ...
Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy
Hitsville USA
Brewster Douglass Projects
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing as of June 2011. He succeeds Shannon Holmes in that position. ...
Kirk Lewis
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
The Kresge Fellowship, offered by the Kresge Foundation, is Detroit's most prestigious award for artists. It consists of ...
Kresge Fellowship
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Some prominent figures named in a DetroitYES! thread: Rosa Parks Sophie Lyons, "Queen of the underworld" Mary Beck, ...
Women in Detroit
Longer Narratives of Detroit (Cooper) Class and race in Detroit (Matt) Mid Detroit's Jewish community (Matt) German areas ...
History project list
District 6
Leland Hotel
Really Public Meetings Meetings of these bodies are open to the public under the Open Meetings Act, PA ...
Public Meetings
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Vanity Ballroom
The third oldest children's museum in the US. Admission is free. According to the Free Press, the museum ...
Detroit Children's Museum
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
Remember You're Beautiful
Steven Ogden
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
New Paradigm for Education
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
General Baker
Margaux & Max Mural
Found Sound Record Mural
Active Publications Detroit News DetroitLocal.News Detroit Free Press Deadline Detroit ModelD Metro Times Crain's Detroit Michigan Citizen Voices ...
List of Detroit Newspapers
What Pipeline
Detroit Music Box
Shinola
Detroit's casino's were originally intended to be built on the riverfront. Their temporary locations inland became permanent, leaving ...
Detroit Riverfront
Chair: Bishop Charles Ellis III Co-chairs: Phillip Cooley Lydia Gutierrez Alice Thompson Heaster Wheeler Troy AdamDesign EngineerMetzeler Automotive ...
First Detroit Works Advisory Task Force
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
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