Green Acres Park Mural
Allied Media Projects
The 2013 Detroit Mayoral election will be held on November 5, 2013. The primary election will be held ...
2013 Detroit Mayoral Election
Hantz Farms
Detroit Sound Historical Landmarks Committee
Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative
City Bird
E Kirby St
WXYZ
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
Paradise Theatre
Westin Book Cadillac
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Brewster Douglass Projects
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
Federal Reserve building
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Pauly's Grill
The State Fairgrounds are located just east of Woodward Avenue along Eight Mile Road. The Michigan State Fair ...
State Fairgrounds
Tyrone E. Winfrey represented District 4 and was president of the Detroit Board of Education. He is an ...
Tyrone E. Winfrey
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
Byte & Mortar
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
Cobo Hall. 700,000 sq ft of exhibition space. Events include North American International Auto Show. Comerica Park. Seats ...
Places to have a meeting or event
Every city has its acronyms, which the locals know and which baffle outsiders. ACS (1yr): American Community Survey ...
Acronyms
Published history Celebrating Two Centuries of Michigan Newspapers A brief history of newspapers in Michigan. link. On guard, ...
History of Detroit Newspapers
A voluntary organization that coordinates activities around the park, including restoration and fundraising for maintenance. In late 2011, ...
Friends of Belle Isle
WDIV
The “Detroit Americanization” movement, begun by major auto manufacturers as the industry experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, ...
Detroit Americanization movement
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Public art project ideas
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
Roasting Plant
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
Ruth Ellis Home
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
Jefferson Avenue
Legend's Pizza Mural
Cass Ave
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Chez | Zara Coffee
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
Places Belle Isle Park Campus Martius Comerica Park Cider Mills Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Detroit International Riverfront ...
Things to do with kids
Flower Frame Mural
Oakwood Heights
Arden Park-East Boston Historic District
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Heidelberg Project
Avalon International Breads
Garden Theatre
WJBK
Sanda Cook is a Romanian-born painter who modeled for a time in Japan and now lives in a ...
Sanda Cook
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
George Jackson oversees economic development activity, Planning and Development, and Environmental Affairs for the City of Detroit. Positions ...
George W. Jackson, Jr.
General Baker
I-375
Introduction The Detroit Sound Consortium is a potential project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy begun in May 2013 ...
Detroit Sound Consortium
United Sound Brochure c.1968
Jam Handy
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Electric Street
Resigned as fire commissioner in January 2011, along with deputy Seth Doyle, under pressure from Mayor Dave Bing. ...
James Mack Jr.
Remember You're Beautiful
Ponyride
Not sure what to write about? Here are some ideas. Just click on the page title to start! ...
DetroitWiki wishlist
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Special Assistant Attorney General appointed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to represented Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial ...
John F. Clark
Wigle Recreation Center
The Detroit Internet Club is an amorphous collective founded on Independence Day, July 4th 2011. "Internet" is writ ...
Detroit Internet Club
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
Longer Narratives of Detroit (Cooper) Class and race in Detroit (Matt) Mid Detroit's Jewish community (Matt) German areas ...
History project list
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
Kresge Building
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
Locally-owned and operated. The Bureau of Urban Living The Burton Theatre city bird Good Girls Go to Paris ...
Independent
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
What Pipeline
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Former top lawyer for the City of Detroit. Was replaced by Dave Bing and the City Council for ...
Krystal Crittendon
Good Times Livernois Mural
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
Wurlitzer Building
This is DetroitWiki, a publicly editable website about Detroit-related information. The site is a collection of information, memories, ...
About DetroitWiki
In the second half of the 20th century, Detroit's population began to fall and its economy declined. By ...
The decline of Detroit
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
Aretha Franklin - Fel'le Gallery
Zoot's Coffee
The Gnome
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Nain Rouge
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Birmingham
NW Detroit Development Corp
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