Faces
Wayne County Jail
Slow's BarBQ
Detroit Sound Historical Landmarks Committee
Capitol Park
Formerly University Cultural Center Association, MDI is a nonprofit community development group. It as founded by Wayne State ...
Midtown Detroit Inc.
Grinnell Warehouse
Saint Andrews
Focus: HOPE, a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Fr. William T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and ...
Focus: HOPE
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
A drop-off center at 1331 Holden operated by Matthew Naimi. Rosedale Recycles, coordinated by Margaret Weber, is now ...
Recycle Here!
Broderick Tower
Really Public Meetings Meetings of these bodies are open to the public under the Open Meetings Act, PA ...
Public Meetings
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
The Detroit City Charter goes through periodic review as deemed within the Municipal charter. The first step in ...
Detroit Charter Revision Commission
Entrepreneur and Detroit booster. Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Nelson started Open City, a support group for ...
Claire Nelson
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
The civil disturbance of July 1967 was a pivotal moment in the city's history. The standard narrative considers ...
1967 riot/rebellion
Birmingham
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Jefferson East Business Association
Shop on Canfield started by Claire Nelson in the Canfield Lofts. The Bureau opened in Spring 2007 and ...
Bureau of Urban Living
Downtown
WDIV
Pauly's Grill
Kevyn Duane Orr (born 1958/1959) is the emergency manager of the city of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed ...
Kevyn Orr
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
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Gary Brown is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. Brown has been named as a possible ...
Gary Brown
Nain Rouge
Some prominent figures named in a DetroitYES! thread: Rosa Parks Sophie Lyons, "Queen of the underworld" Mary Beck, ...
Women in Detroit
Belle Isle Nature Zoo
A list of the mayors of the City of Detroit. Create a page for a mayor who is ...
Mayors of Detroit
Former chief administrative officer for Kwame Kilpatrick. Pled guilty to federal bribery and tax charges on September 12, ...
Derrick Miller
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Karen Dumas is a communications professional/media contributor/public speaker committed to excellence, entrepreneurship, and equality. As founder of Images ...
Karen Dumas
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
La Dozena Donut
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
Blue Skeleton
Named as Acting Chief Officer of the Detroit Public Schools by Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts on 30 ...
Mark Schrupp
Cheap / free ThinkDetroit weblog has a post about two ways; set up a small horseshoe rink! Plant ...
Empty lot projects
Under federal court oversight. In 1977, the City entered into a federal consent agreement In July 2011, the ...
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD)
The Peoples Water Board is coalition of organizations (labor, social justice, environmental, conservation) working together to protect our ...
People's Water Board Coalition
Ruth Ellis Home
The park in front of Michigan Central Station. Being revitalized by a number of partners under the name ...
Roosevelt Park
Sal Rodriguez is a photographer for Channel 4 who has exhibited in fine arts galleries like Corktown Studios, ...
Sal Rodriguez
A permanent statewide authority (the Education Achievement Authority) ​will run a school district intended to improve Michigan schools ...
Education Achievement System
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
New Paradigm for Education
WJBK
Detroit Streetcars
Chief of Staff for mayor Dave Bing as of June 2011. He succeeds Shannon Holmes in that position. ...
Kirk Lewis
Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is a Detroit activist and political thinker. She has been involved ...
Grace Lee Boggs
Heidelberg Project
Sunshine
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
In January 2010, Kim and Hollis Smith opened a produce store in Midtown at 4206 Woodward Ave (near ...
Kim's Produce
Remember You're Beautiful
There are a number of jails and/or correctional facilities in Detroit. Wayne County Jail (267 inmates) Ryan Correctional ...
prisons
660 Woodward Ave. Designed by Albert Kahn. As of May 2011, Dan Gilbert had a contract to purchase ...
First National Building
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Hired by Interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. Fired by Dave Bing. Official City Biography Police Chief James R. ...
James R. Barren
Bookies Club 870
West Side
Burns about 800,000 tons of trash a year, of which 300,000 is from the City of Detroit. The ...
Waste-to-energy incinerator
Resigned as fire commissioner in January 2011, along with deputy Seth Doyle, under pressure from Mayor Dave Bing. ...
James Mack Jr.
Roosevelt Hotel
Getting a house in Detroit demolished Buying a house in Detroit Buying property from the City of Detroit ...
Community development page ideas
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
M-1 RAIL
Barsamian Preparatory Center
The “Detroit Americanization” movement, begun by major auto manufacturers as the industry experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, ...
Detroit Americanization movement
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
Current 3408 MSU Detroit Center 3711 Orchestra Hall 3750 China One restaurant 4454 MOCAD art museum 4717 Bob's ...
Woodward Ave
Special Assistant Attorney General appointed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to represented Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial ...
John F. Clark
From New York. Involved in the feasibility study for Michigan Central Station. Bought a building in Corktown with ...
Scott Griffin
Roasting Plant
Television stations broadcasting from Detroit. October 23, 1946: WWDT Channel 4 begins experimental broadcasts as the first Michigan ...
Television
Chez | Zara Coffee
Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain
Saul Green is Of Counsel at the law firm of Miller Canfield, where he works with the Litigation ...
Saul Green
Housing Is A Human Right Coalition
Electric Street
Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP)
Lisa Poszywak is artistic director of Corktown Studios and a vocalist in the Rogue Satellites. She was in ...
Lisa Poszywak
Howze is a senior figure in the Duggan Administration. She currently serves as director of governmental affairs, with ...
Lisa LaShawn Howze
Zoot's Coffee
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Oakwood Heights
Detroit Entertainment Commission
Wigle Recreation Center
United Sound Brochure c.1968
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Inner State Gallery
Detroit Music Box
Orchestra Hall
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Charter Schools in Detroit
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