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Focus: HOPE, a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Fr. William T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and ...
Focus: HOPE
Brightmoor
East Jefferson Avenue
Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit) was elected president of City Council in 2009. Prior to ...
Charles Pugh
14th Street
Faces
Grinnell Warehouse
Class, race, and housing in Detroit
Wayne County Jail
Scott Fountain
Jefferson Avenue
Visger Street
Entrepreneur and Detroit booster. Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Nelson started Open City, a support group for ...
Claire Nelson
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
The Detroit City Charter goes through periodic review as deemed within the Municipal charter. The first step in ...
Detroit Charter Revision Commission
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
Trade Winds Mural
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Byte & Mortar
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
Chief of the Detroit Police Department. Follows Warren Evans in the position. Promoted from Assistant Police Chief in ...
Ralph Godbee Jr.
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing as of June 2011. He succeeds Shannon Holmes in that position. ...
Kirk Lewis
Riverside Park
The Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority (GDRRA) is a quasi-public agency responsible for overseeing disposal of the city's ...
Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Former chief administrative officer for Kwame Kilpatrick. Pled guilty to federal bribery and tax charges on September 12, ...
Derrick Miller
Steven Ogden
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Maccabees Building
Aretha Franklin - Fel'le Gallery
Boynton
Astro Coffee
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
D3 collects and shares information about the Detroit area. They aggregate, process, and share statistics about "indicators," or ...
Data Driven Detroit
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
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Hired by Interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Fired by Dave Bing. Official City Biography Police Chief James R. ...
James R. Barren
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
Wigle Recreation Center
Arts League of Michigan building
Bookies Club 870
United Sound Brochure c.1968
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Birmingham
WJBK
Germack Coffee Roasting Company
Heidelberg Project
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
midtown co-lab
Jefferson East Business Association
Boston-Edison Historic District
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
Howze is a senior figure in the Duggan Administration. She currently serves as director of governmental affairs, with ...
Lisa LaShawn Howze
City Center Coin Laundry
Former top lawyer for the City of Detroit. Was replaced by Dave Bing and the City Council for ...
Krystal Crittendon
Introduction The Detroit Sound Consortium is a potential project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy begun in May 2013 ...
Detroit Sound Consortium
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Active Publications Detroit News DetroitLocal.News Detroit Free Press Deadline Detroit ModelD Metro Times Crain's Detroit Michigan Citizen Voices ...
List of Detroit Newspapers
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
Current 3408 MSU Detroit Center 3711 Orchestra Hall 3750 China One restaurant 4454 MOCAD art museum 4717 Bob's ...
Woodward Ave
Nain Rouge
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Named as Acting Chief Officer of the Detroit Public Schools by Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts on 30 ...
Mark Schrupp
Inner State Gallery
Arden Park-East Boston Historic District
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
The Gnome
Loving Elementary School
After World War II, white working-class neighborhoods in Detroit redoubled their efforts to organize and keep African-American residents ...
Defended neighborhoods
Leland Hotel
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
Shinola
NW Detroit Development Corp
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
Resigned as fire commissioner in January 2011, along with deputy Seth Doyle, under pressure from Mayor Dave Bing. ...
James Mack Jr.
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary Brown
Binder Street Block Club O&R
Named interim commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department on 23 December 2014. The previous commissioner, Donald Austin, resigned ...
Jonathan Jackson
Sunshine
Great Lakes Coffee
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
Garden Theatre
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Charter Schools in Detroit
Sal Rodriguez is a photographer for Channel 4 who has exhibited in fine arts galleries like Corktown Studios, ...
Sal Rodriguez
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
Detroit Entertainment Commission
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
Avalon International Breads
Barsamian Preparatory Center
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