Dave Bing was elected mayor of Detroit in a special election on May 5, 2009 and was sworn ...
Bing Administration
WXYZ
Green Acres Park Mural
Grinnell Warehouse
Warren Evans was the Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department until about July 21, 2010. Mayor ...
Warren Evans
Plum Street
Focus: HOPE, a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Fr. William T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and ...
Focus: HOPE
A nonprofit development corporation focused on elders in Southwest Detroit. Since the late 1990s, has acted as a ...
Bridging Communities, Inc.
Capitol Park
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
Cass Ave
Under federal court oversight. In 1977, the City entered into a federal consent agreement In July 2011, the ...
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD)
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
New Paradigm for Education
The “Detroit Americanization” movement, begun by major auto manufacturers as the industry experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, ...
Detroit Americanization movement
Starbucks
Hitsville USA
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
Public art project ideas
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Visger Street
Ponyride
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
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
Nain Rouge
City Center Coin Laundry
Birmingham
Introduction The Detroit Sound Consortium is a potential project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy begun in May 2013 ...
Detroit Sound Consortium
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
The Gnome
Westin Book Cadillac
Garden Theatre
Inner State Gallery
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
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
Patrick Gossman is the executive director. Hopes to bring wireless access to more than 4,000 residents, as well ...
Community Telecommunications Network
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Remember You're Beautiful
Chez | Zara Coffee
A voluntary organization that coordinates activities around the park, including restoration and fundraising for maintenance. In late 2011, ...
Friends of Belle Isle
December 2009 Grants $500,000 to University Cultural Center Association for community development, beautification, and small-business support in Midtown. ...
Hudson-Webber Foundation
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
WJBK
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Project concepts Some general ideas & brainstorming around possibilities Community Genius Bar A volunteer event where people can ...
Tech project ideas
Sunshine
Belle Isle Nature Zoo
Jefferson Avenue
Great Lakes Coffee
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell. 2009 ...
Recent stories about Detroit
Downtown
Astro Coffee
Electric Street
Margaux & Max Mural
Fitzgerald Detroit
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Detroit Streetcars
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Places Belle Isle Park Campus Martius Comerica Park Cider Mills Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Detroit International Riverfront ...
Things to do with kids
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
NW Detroit Development Corp
Coleman A. Young International Airport
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary Brown
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
Kresge Building
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
J.L. Hudson Co.
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
George Jackson oversees economic development activity, Planning and Development, and Environmental Affairs for the City of Detroit. Positions ...
George W. Jackson, Jr.
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
Resilient communities are self-defined groups that work together to insulate themselves from potentially damaging effects of global change, ...
Resilient communities
WDIV
Wurlitzer Building
General Baker
Detroit Music Box
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Howze is a senior figure in the Duggan Administration. She currently serves as director of governmental affairs, with ...
Lisa LaShawn Howze
The Detroit City Charter goes through periodic review as deemed within the Municipal charter. The first step in ...
Detroit Charter Revision Commission
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
I-375
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
A drop-off center at 1331 Holden operated by Matthew Naimi. Rosedale Recycles, coordinated by Margaret Weber, is now ...
Recycle Here!
Detroit Artists Market
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Ruth Ellis Home
Blue Skeleton
Chief of the Detroit Police Department. Follows Warren Evans in the position. Promoted from Assistant Police Chief in ...
Ralph Godbee Jr.
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in 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
Boston-Edison Historic District
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