Plum Street
Jo's Gallery Mural
Brightmoor
Detroit Sound Historical Landmarks Committee
Focus: HOPE, a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Fr. William T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and ...
Focus: HOPE
The 2013 Detroit Mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2013. The primary election will be held ...
2013 Detroit Mayoral Election
Overview A neighborhood of Detroit currently going through significant transition both north and south of Mack Avenue / ...
Cass Corridor
Warren Evans was the Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department until about July 21, 2010. Mayor ...
Warren Evans
Allied Media Projects
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
New Paradigm for Education
Detroit Music Box
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
District 6
Downtown
I-375
Named as Acting Chief Officer of the Detroit Public Schools by Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts on 30 ...
Mark Schrupp
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Arts League of Michigan building
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell. 2009 ...
Recent stories about Detroit
Griswold St
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
Tyrone E. Winfrey represented District 4 and was president of the Detroit Board of Education. He is an ...
Tyrone E. Winfrey
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
Jefferson Avenue
Ponyride
A charter operator authorized by the Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency. In June 2011, the Academy was chosen ...
Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
In the second half of the 20th century, Detroit's population began to fall and its economy declined. By ...
The decline of Detroit
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
Chez | Zara Coffee
Pauly's Grill
The Detroit Internet Club is an amorphous collective founded on Independence Day, July 4th 2011. "Internet" is writ ...
Detroit Internet Club
Michigan Sound
Leland Hotel
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
Westin Book Cadillac
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
Chief of the Detroit Police Department. Follows Warren Evans in the position. Promoted from Assistant Police Chief in ...
Ralph Godbee Jr.
Detroit Entertainment Commission
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
From a structure still in flux in mid-2009 to an institution with 56 full-time and 34-part employees, the ...
Detroit Land Bank Authority
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Heidelberg Project
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
Paradise Theatre
Library Street Collective
Project concepts Some general ideas & brainstorming around possibilities Community Genius Bar A volunteer event where people can ...
Tech project ideas
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
City Center Coin Laundry
Wurlitzer Building
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Germack Coffee Roasting Company
Margaux & Max Mural
Founded by Malik Shabazz. The group registers voters, stages protests and public actions (including against drug houses), promotes ...
New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement
Places Belle Isle Park Campus Martius Comerica Park Cider Mills Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Detroit International Riverfront ...
Things to do with kids
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Remember You're Beautiful
Locally-owned and operated. The Bureau of Urban Living The Burton Theatre city bird Good Girls Go to Paris ...
Independent
Some prominent figures named in a DetroitYES! thread: Rosa Parks Sophie Lyons, "Queen of the underworld" Mary Beck, ...
Women in Detroit
La Dozena Donut
West Side
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Scott Fountain
M-1 RAIL
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Under federal court oversight. In 1977, the City entered into a federal consent agreement In July 2011, the ...
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD)
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
The DRIC/NITC is the public option for a new bridge to Canada. 2008 February: Gateway Project begins. Moves ...
Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) aka New International Trade Crossing (NITC)
Vanity Ballroom
Orchestra Hall
Blue Skeleton
Really Public Meetings Meetings of these bodies are open to the public under the Open Meetings Act, PA ...
Public Meetings
Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Loving Elementary School
Astro Coffee
Flower Frame Mural
A community-written development plan for the Lower Eastside, roughly bounded by Mt. Elliott, Warren, Outer Drive, and the ...
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP)
Avalon International Breads
Trade Winds Mural
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
Maccabees Building
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
Nain Rouge
This is DetroitWiki, a publicly editable website about Detroit-related information. The site is a collection of information, memories, ...
About DetroitWiki
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
After World War II, white working-class neighborhoods in Detroit redoubled their efforts to organize and keep African-American residents ...
Defended neighborhoods
Legend's Pizza Mural
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Roasting Plant
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
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