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The Voice of Detroit Neighborhoods: Midtown as a Planned Mixed-Use Neighborhood

City of Detroit, History, Neighborhood / Pamela Hilliard Owens

As Detroit once again rises and experiences growth, rebirth, and reconstruction in many areas of our City, including the near-completion of the El Moore , we are experiencing how Detroit is attempting to balance the maze of freeways that cut through our neighborhoods and the goal of many neighborhoods to become more walkable and pedestrian-friendly. […]

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Where Did Everyone Go?

City of Detroit, History / Guest

It has been well publicized. Decades of severe loss of population, an under-performing public school system, an economy heavily dependent on just one industry, abandoned homes, crime out of control (including the infamous title of the nation’s murder capital). Yes, I’m referring to Washington D.C. a few decades ago. OK, well, maybe it has not been

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Voices of Detroit: A Visit by Mary Sheffield

City of Detroit, Neighborhood, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

The El Moore, a residential apartment complex that is designed to be a model of urban sustainable living, is located on the 600 block of West Alexandrine, which is considered part of the Midtown area of Detroit. The El Moore, and its affiliated project, the Green Garage, a model of an urban sustainable work environment,

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The Greenhouse – Using Our Past to Build Our Future (podcast)

City of Detroit, Construction, History, Images, Neighborhood, Podcasts, Sustainability / Peggy Brennan

This episode of our podcast series Stories of the El Moore shares the stories about the new Greenhouse building at the El Moore project in Detroit. It is part of a larger project to explore the nature of sustainable urban living centered on an 1898 abandoned apartment building in a small neighborhood in Detroit. It describes

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The Voices of Detroit: French Detroit

City of Detroit, History, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

Those who know the history of the City of Detroit know that our City was founded three hundred and thirteen years ago in 1701, by French explorers. Our Area Code is also “313”, so we have been really celebrating this year! “De-troit” can be roughly translated from the French to “the straits”. French explorer and

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Detroit, the El Moore, and Jane Jacobs

City of Detroit, History, Neighborhood, Sustainability / Pamela Hilliard Owens

The El Moore is a project under construction that will be a model of urban residential sustainable living. Like most cities in the United States, Detroit went through a phase of “urban renewal” in the mid-20th century, with very mixed results. Jane Jacobs, author of the seminal 1961 book on urban planning, The Death and

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John White: A Story of Revitalizing a Detroit Neighborhood

City of Detroit, Neighborhood, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

Recently, when many people talk about the “rebirth of Detroit”, they proudly point to the flurry of redevelopment and resurgence mainly in three areas of our city: Downtown, Midtown, and Corktown. But as we native and long-time Detroiters know, there is much, much more to Detroit than those areas. People look to rehabilitation projects such

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Insights – Sue Mosey

City of Detroit, Neighborhood, People / Kimberly Williamson

If you know anything about the happenings in Midtown Detroit, you know that Sue Mosey, President of Midtown Detroit Inc., has been leading the charge to see to it that Midtown thrives as both a neighborhood and business center – no wonder she has come to be affectionately known as the “mayor of Midtown”. Sue

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