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Formerly University Cultural Center Association, MDI is a nonprofit community development group. It as founded by Wayne State ...
Midtown Detroit Inc.
Green Acres Park Mural
Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit) was elected president of City Council in 2009. Prior to ...
Charles Pugh
Allied Media Projects
E Kirby St
Warren Evans was police chief from ??-?? Consent Decree According to the City FAQ, Mayor Dennis Archer requested ...
Detroit Police Department
Vogue Vintage Mural
East Jefferson Avenue
West Side
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
New Paradigm for Education
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Hitsville USA
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
A community-written development plan for the Lower Eastside, roughly bounded by Mt. Elliott, Warren, Outer Drive, and the ...
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP)
Wurlitzer Building
The park in front of Michigan Central Station. Being revitalized by a number of partners under the name ...
Roosevelt Park
Barsamian Preparatory Center
Electric Street
Entrepreneur and Detroit booster. Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Nelson started Open City, a support group for ...
Claire Nelson
Howze is a senior figure in the Duggan Administration. She currently serves as director of governmental affairs, with ...
Lisa LaShawn Howze
Byte & Mortar
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
NW Detroit Development Corp
City Center Coin Laundry
The Kresge Foundation has taken an active role in major Detroit-area development projects. They provided the early major ...
Kresge Foundation
Orchestra Hall
Cass Ave
Kresge Building
D3 collects and shares information about the Detroit area. They aggregate, process, and share statistics about "indicators," or ...
Data Driven Detroit
The Gnome
Aretha Franklin - Fel'le Gallery
Former top lawyer for the City of Detroit. Was replaced by Dave Bing and the City Council for ...
Krystal Crittendon
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
Found Sound Record Mural
Public art project ideas
Not sure what to write about? Here are some ideas. Just click on the page title to start! ...
DetroitWiki wishlist
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
The Kresge Fellowship, offered by the Kresge Foundation, is Detroit's most prestigious award for artists. It consists of ...
Kresge Fellowship
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
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
Coleman A. Young International Airport
United Sound Brochure c.1968
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
The civil disturbance of July 1967 was a pivotal moment in the city's history. The standard narrative considers ...
1967 riot/rebellion
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
Stars Mural
After World War II, white working-class neighborhoods in Detroit redoubled their efforts to organize and keep African-American residents ...
Defended neighborhoods
A drop-off center at 1331 Holden operated by Matthew Naimi. Rosedale Recycles, coordinated by Margaret Weber, is now ...
Recycle Here!
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Garden Theatre
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
Michigan Sound
The Detroit Internet Club is an amorphous collective founded on Independence Day, July 4th 2011. "Internet" is writ ...
Detroit Internet Club
Visger Street
Scott Fountain
Arts League of Michigan building
Roasting Plant
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
Blue Skeleton
Oakwood Heights
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
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
General Baker
Shinola
J.L. Hudson Co.
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing as of June 2011. He succeeds Shannon Holmes in that position. ...
Kirk Lewis
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
Westin Book Cadillac
Ruth Ellis Home
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Remember You're Beautiful
Detroit Streetcars
The Peoples Water Board is coalition of organizations (labor, social justice, environmental, conservation) working together to protect our ...
People's Water Board Coalition
Vanity Ballroom
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
Boynton
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
Active Publications Detroit News DetroitLocal.News Detroit Free Press Deadline Detroit ModelD Metro Times Crain's Detroit Michigan Citizen Voices ...
List of Detroit Newspapers
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Heidelberg Project
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
Community Development Corporations in Detroit. Here's a Google Map of CDCs Abayomi CDC -- Abayomi CDC Bridging Communities, ...
Community Development Corporations
Loving Elementary School
Avalon International Breads
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Downtown
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
The “Detroit Americanization” movement, begun by major auto manufacturers as the industry experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, ...
Detroit Americanization movement
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
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