Wayne County Jail
Vogue Vintage Mural
Dan Carmody is the head. From an interview with metrotimes: "We have four missions. One is to run ...
Eastern Market
Warren Evans was police chief from ??-?? Consent Decree According to the City FAQ, Mayor Dennis Archer requested ...
Detroit Police Department
Detroit Sound Historical Landmarks Committee
Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative
East Jefferson Avenue
Brightmoor
Activate313
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)
Cass Ave
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
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
Detroit Streetcars
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
Visger Street
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
In the second half of the 20th century, Detroit's population began to fall and its economy declined. By ...
The decline of Detroit
The Kresge Foundation has taken an active role in major Detroit-area development projects. They provided the early major ...
Kresge Foundation
Kresge Building
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Astro Coffee
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
Scott Fountain
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Published history Celebrating Two Centuries of Michigan Newspapers A brief history of newspapers in Michigan. link. On guard, ...
History of Detroit Newspapers
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Patrick Gossman is the executive director. Hopes to bring wireless access to more than 4,000 residents, as well ...
Community Telecommunications Network
La Dozena Donut
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Avalon International Breads
Places Belle Isle Park Campus Martius Comerica Park Cider Mills Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Detroit International Riverfront ...
Things to do with kids
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
WJBK
Good Times Livernois Mural
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
Sal Rodriguez is a photographer for Channel 4 who has exhibited in fine arts galleries like Corktown Studios, ...
Sal Rodriguez
Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing as of June 2011. He succeeds Shannon Holmes in that position. ...
Kirk Lewis
Cheap / free ThinkDetroit weblog has a post about two ways; set up a small horseshoe rink! Plant ...
Empty lot projects
Oakwood Heights
Named as Acting Chief Officer of the Detroit Public Schools by Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts on 30 ...
Mark Schrupp
The third oldest children's museum in the US. Admission is free. According to the Free Press, the museum ...
Detroit Children's Museum
Federal Reserve building
Tyrone E. Winfrey represented District 4 and was president of the Detroit Board of Education. He is an ...
Tyrone E. Winfrey
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
A drop-off center at 1331 Holden operated by Matthew Naimi. Rosedale Recycles, coordinated by Margaret Weber, is now ...
Recycle Here!
Hitsville USA
Vanity Ballroom
The civil disturbance of July 1967 was a pivotal moment in the city's history. The standard narrative considers ...
1967 riot/rebellion
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Jam Handy
Stars Mural
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
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
Boston-Edison Historic District
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
Arts League of Michigan building
Inner State Gallery
The State Fairgrounds are located just east of Woodward Avenue along Eight Mile Road. The Michigan State Fair ...
State Fairgrounds
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Broderick Tower
December 2009 Grants $500,000 to University Cultural Center Association for community development, beautification, and small-business support in Midtown. ...
Hudson-Webber Foundation
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
West Side
Great Lakes Coffee
Jefferson East Business Association
Roasting Plant
Maccabees Building
Locally-owned and operated. The Bureau of Urban Living The Burton Theatre city bird Good Girls Go to Paris ...
Independent
A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell. 2009 ...
Recent stories about Detroit
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
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 program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
This is DetroitWiki, a publicly editable website about Detroit-related information. The site is a collection of information, memories, ...
About DetroitWiki
District 6
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
Detroit Music Box
Charter Schools in Detroit
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain
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