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In 2009, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm appointed Bobb as Emergency Financial Director for the Detroit public school system. ...
Robert C. Bobb
Overview A neighborhood of Detroit currently going through significant transition both north and south of Mack Avenue / ...
Cass Corridor
Detroit Sound Historical Landmarks Committee
East Jefferson Avenue
Community Thrives Here
Marathon Petroleum Co.
City Bird
Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit) was elected president of City Council in 2009. Prior to ...
Charles Pugh
Named as Acting Chief Officer of the Detroit Public Schools by Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts on 30 ...
Mark Schrupp
Tyrone E. Winfrey represented District 4 and was president of the Detroit Board of Education. He is an ...
Tyrone E. Winfrey
Binder Street Block Club O&R
Was head of communications for mayor Dave Bing from May to June 2009, when he resigned. He was ...
Robert N. Warfield
Cass Ave
A trench under the streets from Orleans to St. Aubin. The Cut passes through Lafayette Park, also known ...
Dequindre Cut
Nain Rouge
The third oldest children's museum in the US. Admission is free. According to the Free Press, the museum ...
Detroit Children's Museum
Chief of the Detroit Police Department. Follows Warren Evans in the position. Promoted from Assistant Police Chief in ...
Ralph Godbee Jr.
Kresge Building
Minister Malik Shabazz is a leader of the New Black Panther Nation/New Marcus Garvey Movement and the Detroit ...
Malik Shabazz
Detroit Streetcars
The Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager May 2011 - current Bio here Roy Roberts is the Emergency ...
Roy S. Roberts
Sunshine
Flower Frame Mural
Boynton
United Sound Brochure c.1968
A large number of senior staff have left the Bing administration. Some are catalogued below. Kirk Lewis, Deputy ...
Bing Exodus
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
Named interim commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department on 23 December 2014. The previous commissioner, Donald Austin, resigned ...
Jonathan Jackson
If you're just entering the City as a resident or long-term visitor, these are a couple things you ...
Entering the city
Good Times Livernois Mural
Riverside Park
Paradise Theatre
A nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that is targeting crime and nuisance issues in Detroit. Headquartered at 1001 Woodward Ave, ...
Detroit Crime Commission
The main theme of the 2012 budget has been the ineffectiveness of cuts. City employment fell by 27% ...
2012 Budget
Jam Handy
Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was mayor of Detroit from 1994 to 2001. More information Political Graveyard entry: ...
Dennis Archer
Longer Narratives of Detroit (Cooper) Class and race in Detroit (Matt) Mid Detroit's Jewish community (Matt) German areas ...
History project list
An initiative from Dan Gilbert to rebrand an area around Woodward from East Jefferson to Grand Circus Park ...
Webward
Birmingham
Arts League of Michigan building
Public art project ideas
Aretha Franklin - Fel'le Gallery
M@dison Building
Detroit Entertainment Commission
Charter Schools in Detroit
Entrepreneur and Detroit booster. Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Nelson started Open City, a support group for ...
Claire Nelson
James Burgess Book Jr. House
Resilient communities are self-defined groups that work together to insulate themselves from potentially damaging effects of global change, ...
Resilient communities
Astro Coffee
Coleman A. Young International Airport
Donald Austin started as commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department on 23 May 2011. Response times, equipment failures, ...
Donald Austin
Former chief administrative officer for Kwame Kilpatrick. Pled guilty to federal bribery and tax charges on September 12, ...
Derrick Miller
It was observed that there seem to be a lot of innovative fundraising efforts in Detroit, so it ...
Crowdfunding in Detroit
Roasting Plant
Main article: Education Achievement Authority Detroit Public Schools appointees: Sharlonda Buckman is executive director for Detroit's Parent Network. ...
Education Achievement Authority Board
Grinnell Brothers Piano Factory
Broderick Tower
Downtown
Wigle Recreation Center
Margaux & Max Mural
Detroit Music Box
The Kresge Fellowship, offered by the Kresge Foundation, is Detroit's most prestigious award for artists. It consists of ...
Kresge Fellowship
Avalon International Breads
Sanda Cook is a Romanian-born painter who modeled for a time in Japan and now lives in a ...
Sanda Cook
Patrick Gossman is the executive director. Hopes to bring wireless access to more than 4,000 residents, as well ...
Community Telecommunications Network
Former director of the Coleman A. Young International Airport. He resigned Wednesday, September 29 2010 following poor findings ...
Delbert Brown
In Claytown. Near Chadsey and Munger schools. Friends of Dingeman Park formed by Sheila Crowell and Bridging Communities, ...
Dingeman Park
Greenacres Woodward Civic Association Detroit
Griswold St
A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell. 2009 ...
Recent stories about Detroit
Coffee shop in Midtown Detroit, on Second Avenue across the street from Model D and the Green Garage. ...
Thistle (closed)
Arden Park-East Boston Historic District
Incentive programs intended to bring employees of major local organizations to central Detroit. Live Dowtown Expected to be ...
Live Midtown / Live Downtown
A 62-year-old East Side resident as of late 2011. Elected November to the DPS School Board. Drafted to ...
Wanda Redmond
Library Street Collective
Remember You're Beautiful
Baker's Keyboard Lounge
Inner State Gallery
Great Lakes Coffee
A social worker by trade, Castañeda-López is Councilwoman-elect for District 6. Her district includes Southwest Detroit, Corktown, and ...
Raquel Castañeda-López
Leland Hotel
Sam Riddle is a convicted criminal. The media can be like vultures and often the court of public ...
Sam Riddle
Charlie Beckham is the chief administrative officer and a longtime friend of Mayor Dave Bing. He has been ...
Charlie Beckham
One of the three charter operators selected in the first phase of the Renaissance Plan 2012. The company ...
Global Education Excellence
Emery King was White House Correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for WDIV. He currently is the ...
Emery King
Every city has its acronyms, which the locals know and which baffle outsiders. ACS (1yr): American Community Survey ...
Acronyms
Loving Elementary School
Active Publications Detroit News DetroitLocal.News Detroit Free Press Deadline Detroit ModelD Metro Times Crain's Detroit Michigan Citizen Voices ...
List of Detroit Newspapers
Westin Book Cadillac
(for lack of a better name) What it is: a list of open-source tools that can be used ...
GeoInformatics Tools
What Pipeline
Janice Winfrey is the Detroit City Clerk, a position she has held since 2005. She succeeded Jackie L. ...
Janice Winfrey
555 Gallery and Studios is a gallery that has had a few locations throughout Detroit. The present location ...
555 Gallery and Studios
Name given to the group accused in a racketeering scheme that intended to take contracts through the Detroit ...
Kilpatrick Enterprise
Jackie Currie (1931 - 27 December 2009) was a Detroit City Clerk from 1994 to 2005 and also ...
Jackie Currie
Maccabees Building
Chez | Zara Coffee
A 42-acre former tire factory. Part of the riverfront redevelopment plans, but heavy contamination of the site has ...
Uniroyal Tire Factory
Roosevelt Hotel
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