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Longer Narratives of Detroit (Cooper) Class and race in Detroit (Matt) Mid Detroit's Jewish community (Matt) German areas ...
History project list
General Baker
Roasting Plant
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
Pauly's Grill
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
Michigan Sound
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
The civil disturbance of July 1967 was a pivotal moment in the city's history. The standard narrative considers ...
1967 riot/rebellion
Good Times Livernois Mural
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
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)
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
Former chief administrative officer for Kwame Kilpatrick. Pled guilty to federal bribery and tax charges on September 12, ...
Derrick Miller
A voluntary organization that coordinates activities around the park, including restoration and fundraising for maintenance. In late 2011, ...
Friends of Belle Isle
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Heidelberg Project
WDIV
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
Michelle Tanguay is an artist who participated in the Red Bull House of Art program in 2012 and ...
Michelle Tanguay
Former Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing. Resigned at the request of Bing on 17 June 2011. ...
Shannon Holmes
Michigan Community Resources (aka MCR, formerly Community Legal Resources) provides assistance to community organizations in Michigan area. They ...
Michigan Community Resources
Labor Hall of Fame
Worked in the Ficano Administration's IT department under Tahir Kazmi and David Edwards. He stood trial in 2013 ...
Zayd Allebban
Mark Twain Branch
Deputy Director of the Detroit Public Library. Her annual salary as of 2011 was $145,000. Her 3-year contract ...
Juliet Machie
E & L Supermercado
Superland Market
Announced a 22% service cut to be effective December 12, 2011 Sources Jeff Gerritt: SMART to announce 22% ...
Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation
A documentary on the Detroit Public Schools by Dan Rather. Aired 10 May 2011. DetroitYES discussion http://www.hd.net/blogs/2011/05/dan-rather-reports-a-national-disgrace-2/
A National Disgrace
Generally defined by Dix Highway to the north, Waterman St. to east, Fort St. to the south, and ...
Springwells Village
American Hotel
Trinosophes
Currently runs underground. Was covered by cement in the late 1800s. Developer Richard Baron has proposed daylighting the ...
Bloody Run creek
1515 Broadway Cafe
More information "Get My Loot": The Argument for Proposal D in Detroit, Darrell Dawsey for Time Magazine, September ...
Proposal D
American Roads LLC is the operator of the US side of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel as well as four ...
American Roads
Total industrial landscape
Headquarters of the Detroit Tribune Publishing Company
4864 Woodward Ave
Hastings Street was demolished to build I-75. Street listing (incomplete) 2238: Lester Theater (1910-1916), Peoples Theater (1917-1926), Paramount ...
Hastings Street
Sarah Sidelko is cofounder of the bicycle shop Fender Bender. http://www.uixdetroit.com/people/sarah-sidelko.aspx
Sarah Sidelko
The history of labor activism in Detroit is the history of many communities joining, breaking, and rejoining. Early ...
Labor activism
Marie Thornton is a member of the Detroit Public School Board. In the news DPS board member Thornton ...
Marie Thornton
La Guadalupana El Mercad
Cafe 1923
Re-elected to Detroit City Council in the new position of representing District 1 on November 5, 2013 with ...
James Tate
Schaefer Highway
Jasahn Larsosa is the chief organizer of this organization which is Michigan's premier grassroots movement builder for creating ...
This Hood of Ours
CPA, potential 2013 mayoral candidate. Barrow was convicted in 1994 of 11 counts of bank fraud, filing false ...
Tom Barrow
WRCJ 90.9 FM is a listener supported service of Detroit Public Schools and Detroit Public Television. It broadcasts ...
WRCJ
Eric Sabree was the director of the Wayne County Nuisance Abatement Program when it closed in April 2010. ...
Eric Sabree
Author of Lost Detroit: http://LostDetroit.com Runs HistoricDetroit.org. Used to run Buildings of Detroit.
Dan Austin
The Detroit Radio History Committee is a project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy. The goal of the committee ...
Radio History
WDRQ
Honey Bee Market
Second Ebenezer Church is led by Bishop Edgar L. Vann, II. http://SecondEbenezer.org/‎ https://twitter.com/SecondEb Location 14601 Dequindre Road, Detroit, ...
Second Ebenezer Church
Metro Foodland
Bishop Edgar L. Vann, II is the senior pastor of the Second Ebenezer Church. http://secondebenezer.org/mission/bishopvann/ https://twitter.com/EdgarVann In the ...
Edgar L. Vann, II
The 22,500 square foot building was built in 1891 for the F. J. Schwankovsky piano, organ, and music ...
1500 Woodward
Sav-Mart Food Center
UAW Local 22
Roderick Grimes is the Police Chief of the Detroit Public Schools. He was appointed by Robert Bobb in ...
Roderick Grimes
Livernois Supermarket
Food Giant
August 2014 Detroit flood
In the 1930s, Unemployed Councils in Detroit organized people unable to find work. Heavily supported by the Communist ...
Unemployment Councils
Talent Intake Director for the Duggan Administration's transition team. Barnhill was Mike Duggan's 2013 mayoral campaign manager. Previously, ...
Bryan C. Barnhill II
Executive director, Southwest Solutions Chair, Community Development Advocates of Detroit References Neighborhood groups want role in smaller-city planning ...
Tim Thorland
In 2014 state of the city, Mayor Duggan said his insurance doubled when he moved 15 miles to ...
Auto insurance
Dongdu International Group (DDI Group) of Shanghai purchased the David Stott Building and the Detroit Free Press Building ...
Dongdu International Group
Rochelle Riley is a columnist for the Detroit Free Press. She is a graduate of the University of ...
Rochelle Riley
Super Fair Foods Market
People President and Chief Executive Officer Nancy M. Schlichting. senior vice president Bill Schramm http://HenryFord.com
Henry Ford Health System
Indian Village Market
http://www.centraldetroitchristian.org/ CDCCDC runs lots of programs in central Detroit, including educational programs, job training, homebuyer's education and assistance, ...
Central Detroit Christian CDC
Chad Livengood is the capitol reporter for the Detroit News. @ChadLivengood
Chad Livengood
Hip Hop Shop
So often, people disagree with proposed or implemented policies in Detroit. It's refreshing to see responses that include ...
Policy
An arts-focused development funding program lead by the National Endowment for the Arts. Pledged 1.33M to Detroit-area organizations ...
ArtPlace
Announced in June 2012 by mayor Dave Bing. To be held July 13-15 in the Paradise Valley cultural ...
Detroit Paradise Valley Music Festival
Jacob Siegel house
Among the goals of Detroit revitalization, there are a growing number of locations that offer Coworking space where ...
Coworking
Thad Jones (1923-1986) was a jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Born in Pontiac, he settled in Detroit in 1952 ...
Thad Jones
Anthology Coffee
See Webward
Dan Mullen
Scott Lowell is a restaurateur and developer in Midtown. Currently, he owns the Traffic Jam and Snug restaurant ...
Scott Lowell
Roach is the communications director for the Duggan administration's transition team. He also ran communications for the 2013 ...
John Roach
One Woodward is an office tower at the corner of Woodward and Jefferson. It was built in 1962 ...
One Woodward
Joseph Siegel house
The history of Detroit and Michigan: or, the metropolis illustrated
Value Save Food Center
Woodbridge
Preservation Detroit
A 19-story building at 1553 Woodward, across the street from the Broderick Tower. The building was bought in ...
David Whitney Building
Police Chief James Craig once said that carjacking is “almost like a way of life in Detroit.” As ...
Carjacking in Detroit
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