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Month: April 2019 News Articles

Spring 2019

Gathering space opens in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood

April 29th, 2019

The 4,000-square-foot building at 7426 W. McNichols will be home to the Live6 Alliance, an economic development organization started in 2015 and supported by the Kresge Foundation and University of Detroit Mercy.

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Fitzgerald neighborhood takes innovative approach to reactivating vacant land

April 29th, 2019

The San Juan block of northwest Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood has seen its share of ups and downs. Historically, it’s been a stable street with lots of young families and children. But over the last decade, neighbors have had to contend with the slings and arrows of the foreclosure crisis, vacancy, and blight.

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Crain’s panel: Detroit residents’ retail needs are path to profit, neighborhood resurgence

April 25th, 2019

“Patience and commitment” to helping communities needs to be “baked up front” in Detroit real estate development deals, said Abir Ali, director of design and culture for Detroit-based developer The Platform LLC.

“I think if that is part of it, then we’re going to see that impact not just impacting returns and development portfolios, but also with the people you’re impacting,” Ali said.

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Finding a Platform for Success

April 22nd, 2019

Clarke Lewis, M.Arch ’15, and Myles Hamby, M.U.P. ’14, aren’t Detroit or Michigan natives. But as development managers at The Platform, a Detroit real estate development company, they are all in on the city’s potential, and they are working on its revitalization with insiders’ views as residents. “Detroit is one of the most interesting urban labs in the world,” says Lewis, who grew up in Pittsburgh.

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