City Cleanup Category

Repairing 40 homes in 40 days. That’s the goal of Tim Addy, founder of Handyman Ministries, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods. The organization is taking donations to help fix up the homes, operating almost entirely through volunteers to make a positive difference in Detroit and beyond. The [...][...]

One of our favorite parts about Detroit is the grassroots support that flows from nearly every corner of the city. Detroit is a city of doers.  Case in point is the social action blog IamYoungDetroit, profiling Detroiters who are making an impact on the city, and showing that the kids are alright. The site shares [...][...]

Since Super Bowl XL in 2006 in Detroit, the Motown Winter Blast has been a staple of downtown Detroit festivities in the colder months.  The festival returns again this year in Campus Martius park, featuring ice skating, ice sculptures, live music and, for the first time in two years, the return of the ice slide. The [...][...]

The saying goes, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Or as a certain comic put it, “if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, and find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” Either way you look at it, it’s making the best out of a seemingly bad situation. It’s all [...][...]

Real estate in Detroit. Many are jumping at the opportunity to snap up property and land in the city for various reasons. Real estate investors for future profits and urban farming maintain the highest profiles. One investor, though, is focusing on the artistic opportunity to own a piece of Michigan’s largest city. [...][...]

This past Saturday was ARISE Detroit’s Fourth Annual “Neighborhoods Day,” bringing together local residents and organizations to help clean up Detroit communities. Volunteers worked from dawn to dusk building houses, playgrounds and giving the city a much needed “spit and polish”; demonstrating, in turn, a [...][...]