United Sound Systems
Hantz Farms
Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit) was elected president of City Council in 2009. Prior to ...
Charles Pugh
Unity Sneakers Mural
The University of Michigan has several programs focused on Detroit Detroit Center The U-M Detroit Center at Woodward ...
University of Michigan
Jo's Gallery Mural
City Bird
Dave Bing was elected mayor of Detroit in a special election on May 5, 2009 and was sworn ...
Bing Administration
Vogue Vintage Mural
Active Publications Detroit News DetroitLocal.News Detroit Free Press Deadline Detroit ModelD Metro Times Crain's Detroit Michigan Citizen Voices ...
List of Detroit Newspapers
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Operates a grid for some street lights, city and county buildings, and other locations. Independent from local electric ...
Public Lighting Department
Pauly's Grill
Process leaders of the Detroit Works Project are ambassadors to different constituencies. From the DWP: "The duties of ...
Detroit Works Process Leaders
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
The third oldest children's museum in the US. Admission is free. According to the Free Press, the museum ...
Detroit Children's Museum
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
Zoot's Coffee
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Current 3408 MSU Detroit Center 3711 Orchestra Hall 3750 China One restaurant 4454 MOCAD art museum 4717 Bob's ...
Woodward Ave
Remember You're Beautiful
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
Follows the plan for Woodward Light Rail. In October 2011, Snyder was planning to announce proposals for bus ...
Bus Rapid Transit
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
The Gnome
The Kresge Foundation has taken an active role in major Detroit-area development projects. They provided the early major ...
Kresge Foundation
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
Ruth Ellis Home
General Baker
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
Cass Ave
The park in front of Michigan Central Station. Being revitalized by a number of partners under the name ...
Roosevelt Park
Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Every city has its acronyms, which the locals know and which baffle outsiders. ACS (1yr): American Community Survey ...
Acronyms
George Jackson oversees economic development activity, Planning and Development, and Environmental Affairs for the City of Detroit. Positions ...
George W. Jackson, Jr.
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)
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
What Pipeline
Jam Handy
Former top lawyer for the City of Detroit. Was replaced by Dave Bing and the City Council for ...
Krystal Crittendon
Entrepreneur and Detroit booster. Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Nelson started Open City, a support group for ...
Claire Nelson
Loving Elementary School
Detroit Food Policy Council Detroit Black Community Food Security Network Urban Agriculture Ordinance Hantz Farm Urban Roots RecoveryPark ...
Urban agriculture
The Detroit City Charter goes through periodic review as deemed within the Municipal charter. The first step in ...
Detroit Charter Revision Commission
Named interim commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department on 23 December 2014. The previous commissioner, Donald Austin, resigned ...
Jonathan Jackson
Grinnell Brothers Music 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
Oakwood Heights
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Boston-Edison Historic District
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
Howze is a senior figure in the Duggan Administration. She currently serves as director of governmental affairs, with ...
Lisa LaShawn Howze
Binder Street Block Club O&R
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
Patrick Gossman is the executive director. Hopes to bring wireless access to more than 4,000 residents, as well ...
Community Telecommunications Network
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Resilient communities are self-defined groups that work together to insulate themselves from potentially damaging effects of global change, ...
Resilient communities
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Detroit Artists Market
Good Times Livernois Mural
A program to bring 15,000 young, educated people to downtown Detroit by 2015. Three organizations are talking the ...
15 by 15 Initiative
Really Public Meetings Meetings of these bodies are open to the public under the Open Meetings Act, PA ...
Public Meetings
Federal Reserve building
Roasting Plant
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
The Detroit Internet Club is an amorphous collective founded on Independence Day, July 4th 2011. "Internet" is writ ...
Detroit Internet Club
Barsamian Preparatory Center
M-1 RAIL
Detroit Music Box
Astro Coffee
After World War II, white working-class neighborhoods in Detroit redoubled their efforts to organize and keep African-American residents ...
Defended neighborhoods
The “Detroit Americanization” movement, begun by major auto manufacturers as the industry experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, ...
Detroit Americanization movement
Scott Fountain
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
Detroit Entertainment Commission
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
Hired by Interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Fired by Dave Bing. Official City Biography Police Chief James R. ...
James R. Barren
midtown co-lab
Jefferson East Business Association
As of 2013, the DFD had about 781 firefighters. 60% of the City's 11-12,000 fires each year are ...
Detroit Fire Department
Visger Street
What are the key things people should know about Detroit? History Too much to summarize right now. Check ...
Briefing book
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Blue Skeleton
Chez | Zara Coffee
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