East Side
WXYZ
Community Thrives Here
Wayne County Jail
Dave Bing was elected mayor of Detroit in a special election on May 5, 2009 and was sworn ...
Bing Administration
Faces
Detroit Institute of Arts
14th Street
Class, race, and housing in Detroit
Special Assistant Attorney General appointed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to represented Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial ...
John F. Clark
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Sunshine
Federal Reserve building
WDIV
NW Detroit Development Corp
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Hired by Interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Fired by Dave Bing. Official City Biography Police Chief James R. ...
James R. Barren
Pauly's Grill
Really Public Meetings Meetings of these bodies are open to the public under the Open Meetings Act, PA ...
Public Meetings
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary 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)
WJBK
Belle Isle Nature Zoo
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Oakwood Heights
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Heidelberg Project
Bookies Club 870
D3 collects and shares information about the Detroit area. They aggregate, process, and share statistics about "indicators," or ...
Data Driven Detroit
The State Fairgrounds are located just east of Woodward Avenue along Eight Mile Road. The Michigan State Fair ...
State Fairgrounds
Orchestra Hall
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
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
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Boynton
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
What Pipeline
Maccabees Building
Patrick Gossman is the executive director. Hopes to bring wireless access to more than 4,000 residents, as well ...
Community Telecommunications Network
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
Detroit's casino's were originally intended to be built on the riverfront. Their temporary locations inland became permanent, leaving ...
Detroit Riverfront
Public art project ideas
Library Street Collective
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Remember You're Beautiful
Good Times Livernois Mural
Detroit Streetcars
The Kresge Fellowship, offered by the Kresge Foundation, is Detroit's most prestigious award for artists. It consists of ...
Kresge Fellowship
In the second half of the 20th century, Detroit's population began to fall and its economy declined. By ...
The decline of Detroit
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
Brewster Douglass Projects
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
Dutch Girl Donuts
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
George Jackson oversees economic development activity, Planning and Development, and Environmental Affairs for the City of Detroit. Positions ...
George W. Jackson, Jr.
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Zoot's Coffee
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
The Peoples Water Board is coalition of organizations (labor, social justice, environmental, conservation) working together to protect our ...
People's Water Board Coalition
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
Inner State Gallery
Boston-Edison Historic District
Avalon International Breads
General Baker
Roasting Plant
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
City Center Coin Laundry
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
Ponyride
Fitzgerald Detroit
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
I-375
Leland Hotel
Sanda Cook is a Romanian-born painter who modeled for a time in Japan and now lives in a ...
Sanda Cook
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Riverside Park
Steven Ogden
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
Loving Elementary School
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Germack Coffee Roasting Company
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
December 2009 Grants $500,000 to University Cultural Center Association for community development, beautification, and small-business support in Midtown. ...
Hudson-Webber Foundation
Broderick Tower
We're aiming to create or improve a number of good pages on different topics by July 1, 2012. ...
Goals
Some prominent figures named in a DetroitYES! thread: Rosa Parks Sophie Lyons, "Queen of the underworld" Mary Beck, ...
Women in Detroit
Jefferson East Business Association
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Vanity Ballroom
Starbucks
A community-written development plan for the Lower Eastside, roughly bounded by Mt. Elliott, Warren, Outer Drive, and the ...
Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP)
Every city has its acronyms, which the locals know and which baffle outsiders. ACS (1yr): American Community Survey ...
Acronyms
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