The University of Michigan has several programs focused on Detroit Detroit Center The U-M Detroit Center at Woodward ...
University of Michigan
A nonprofit development corporation focused on elders in Southwest Detroit. Since the late 1990s, has acted as a ...
Bridging Communities, Inc.
Activate313
Brightmoor
1217 Griswold
WXYZ
Allied Media Projects
East Jefferson Avenue
2013 Marathon refinery fire
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
Pauly's Grill
Detroit Music Box
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
There are many excellent books on Detroit's history. Several that come highly recommended (and are frequent sources on ...
Books on Detroit history
Loving Elementary School
Leland Hotel
Found Sound Record Mural
Orchestra Hall
What Pipeline
Resigned as fire commissioner in January 2011, along with deputy Seth Doyle, under pressure from Mayor Dave Bing. ...
James Mack Jr.
Detroit's casino's were originally intended to be built on the riverfront. Their temporary locations inland became permanent, leaving ...
Detroit Riverfront
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Roosevelt Hotel
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Broderick Tower
Maccabees Building
Federal Reserve building
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Sal Rodriguez is a photographer for Channel 4 who has exhibited in fine arts galleries like Corktown Studios, ...
Sal Rodriguez
Brewster Douglass Projects
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
Downtown
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
J.L. Hudson Co.
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
Public art project ideas
Grinnell Brothers Music Building
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Electric Street
General Baker
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
M-1 RAIL
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Resilient communities are self-defined groups that work together to insulate themselves from potentially damaging effects of global change, ...
Resilient communities
Visger Street
Heidelberg Project
Sanda Cook is a Romanian-born painter who modeled for a time in Japan and now lives in a ...
Sanda Cook
Not sure what to write about? Here are some ideas. Just click on the page title to start! ...
DetroitWiki wishlist
M@dison Building
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
Belle Isle Nature Zoo
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
Scott Fountain
Kresge Building
D3 collects and shares information about the Detroit area. They aggregate, process, and share statistics about "indicators," or ...
Data Driven Detroit
A community-written development plan for the Lower Eastside, roughly bounded by Mt. Elliott, Warren, Outer Drive, and the ...
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP)
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Cheap / free ThinkDetroit weblog has a post about two ways; set up a small horseshoe rink! Plant ...
Empty lot projects
Oakwood Heights
Wurlitzer Building
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)
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Chez | Zara Coffee
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
Places Belle Isle Park Campus Martius Comerica Park Cider Mills Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Detroit International Riverfront ...
Things to do with kids
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Remember You're Beautiful
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
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
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Introduction The Detroit Sound Consortium is a potential project of the Detroit Sound Conservancy begun in May 2013 ...
Detroit Sound Consortium
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
Arts League of Michigan building
Locally-owned and operated. The Bureau of Urban Living The Burton Theatre city bird Good Girls Go to Paris ...
Independent
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
Wigle Recreation Center
Library Street Collective
The Kresge Fellowship, offered by the Kresge Foundation, is Detroit's most prestigious award for artists. It consists of ...
Kresge Fellowship
Cass Ave
Great Lakes Coffee
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Dutch Girl Donuts
Avalon International Breads
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Blue Skeleton
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
West Side
A drop-off center at 1331 Holden operated by Matthew Naimi. Rosedale Recycles, coordinated by Margaret Weber, is now ...
Recycle Here!
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
The park in front of Michigan Central Station. Being revitalized by a number of partners under the name ...
Roosevelt Park
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
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