Roasting Plant
Trade Winds Mural
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Special Assistant Attorney General appointed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to represented Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial ...
John F. Clark
Some prominent figures named in a DetroitYES! thread: Rosa Parks Sophie Lyons, "Queen of the underworld" Mary Beck, ...
Women in Detroit
Avalon International Breads
The third oldest children's museum in the US. Admission is free. According to the Free Press, the museum ...
Detroit Children's Museum
Wurlitzer Building
Current 3408 MSU Detroit Center 3711 Orchestra Hall 3750 China One restaurant 4454 MOCAD art museum 4717 Bob's ...
Woodward Ave
Astro Coffee
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
Michigan Sound
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
Downtown
Good Times Livernois Mural
What Pipeline
Nain Rouge
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Brewster Douglass Projects
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
Legend's Pizza Mural
Published history Celebrating Two Centuries of Michigan Newspapers A brief history of newspapers in Michigan. link. On guard, ...
History of Detroit Newspapers
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
M-1 RAIL
I-375
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
Chez | Zara Coffee
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Hitsville USA
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
Griswold St
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
In the second half of the 20th century, Detroit's population began to fall and its economy declined. By ...
The decline of Detroit
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
Donald Austin started as commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department on 23 May 2011. Response times, equipment failures, ...
Donald Austin
La Dozena Donut
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
Vanity Ballroom
Starbucks
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
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
Under federal court oversight. In 1977, the City entered into a federal consent agreement In July 2011, the ...
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD)
Jam Handy
midtown co-lab
Germack Coffee Roasting Company
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
Wigle Recreation Center
Longer Narratives of Detroit (Cooper) Class and race in Detroit (Matt) Mid Detroit's Jewish community (Matt) German areas ...
History project list
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
Ruth Ellis Home
Binder Street Block Club O&R
Loving Elementary School
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
The Gnome
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
Jefferson Avenue
Detroit Artists Market
Shinola
United Sound Brochure c.1968
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
City Center Coin Laundry
Tyrone E. Winfrey represented District 4 and was president of the Detroit Board of Education. He is an ...
Tyrone E. Winfrey
Cass Ave
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
Scott Fountain
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
Zoot's Coffee
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
The civil disturbance of July 1967 was a pivotal moment in the city's history. The standard narrative considers ...
1967 riot/rebellion
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
Boston-Edison Historic District
Great Lakes Coffee
George Jackson oversees economic development activity, Planning and Development, and Environmental Affairs for the City of Detroit. Positions ...
George W. Jackson, Jr.
Riverside Park
Visger Street
Barsamian Preparatory Center
Ponyride
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Project concepts Some general ideas & brainstorming around possibilities Community Genius Bar A volunteer event where people can ...
Tech project ideas
Resigned as fire commissioner in January 2011, along with deputy Seth Doyle, under pressure from Mayor Dave Bing. ...
James Mack Jr.
A community-written development plan for the Lower Eastside, roughly bounded by Mt. Elliott, Warren, Outer Drive, and the ...
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP)
Orchestra Hall
Arts League of Michigan building
Public art project ideas
Jefferson East Business Association
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary Brown
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
Inner State Gallery
D3 collects and shares information about the Detroit area. They aggregate, process, and share statistics about "indicators," or ...
Data Driven Detroit
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