Winter 2019
Streetscape project on McNichols in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood will begin in May
January 24th, 2020
The City of Detroit will begin its second round of streetscape projects this spring with McNichols Rd. in the Fitzgerald neighborhood, the city announced on Thursday. The purpose of the streetscape project is to create resident-focused streets, according to the city, that serve and attract businesses and families to the neighborhoods.
Open ArticleStreetscape upgrades set for McNichols Road in Detroit
January 23rd, 2020
Streetscape improvements are set to begin this spring on McNichols Road in the Fitzgerald neighborhood, the city of Detroit announced Thursday. The stretch of McNichols from Livernois and Greenlawn on the city’s west side will get an overhaul including new sidewalks, benches and pots, and a protected bike and scooter lane.
Open ArticleIn Detroit, Empty Lots Become Parks, Helping to Rebuild Lost Social Equity
June 27th, 2019
Stephanie Harbin has lived in the Detroit neighborhood of Fitzgerald since 1969 and is president of the San Juan Drive block club. When she was a child, she remembers, there were 75 houses packed onto an extraordinarily long block of San Juan. And in a story that’s been repeated across many sections of Detroit, only 42 homes remain.
Open ArticleDetroit Homecoming V Recap: Real Estate 101 in the D
September 24th, 2018
When Peter Cummings and his development partners began working with Whole Foods Market in 2011 to build its first Detroit store, a Whole Foods executive projected it would generate perhaps $12 million to $15 million a year.
Those projections were more than a little off. Since opening in 2013, Midtown Detroit’s Whole Foods has been generating $30 million annually, Cummings said.
Open Article3 houses for sale advance blight-fighting effort in northwest Detroit
September 8th, 2018
A complicated project to renovate more than 100 vacant homes in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood took a step forward this week as the first handful of houses went up for sale.
Open ArticleFirst three houses in Fitzgerald redevelopment hit the market
September 5th, 2018
One of the larger developments in Detroit outside of the central business district is the redevelopment of a whole neighborhood. The Fitzgerald redevelopment aims to take a neighborhood that had many blighted houses and lots, and renovate homes (for sale and for rent) while adding more green space to the neighborhood. It’s a huge endeavor, and one that’s being led by Century Partners and the Platform on a team called FitzForward.
Open ArticleDetroit home project targets Fitzgerald neighborhood
June 27th, 2018
A two-story house on Lilac Street was once filled with debris from the basement up.It’s now been gutted and is undergoing a complete renovation as part of a $4 million project the city announced last year in an effort to makeover a portion of one Detroit neighborhood.
Open ArticleDeveloper aims to overhaul entire neighborhood on Detroit’s northwest side
June 27th, 2018
Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood sits in the far northwest corner of the city. On Wednesday, developers announced they were buying more than 300 parcels in the neighborhood. They said they aren’t wiping everything out to start over.
Open ArticleFitzgerald neighborhood work starts with new park, community center
October 17th, 2017
The official groundbreaking started today in the Livernois-McNichols area for the Fitzgerald neighborhood revitalization, which is a multi-faceted approach to improve the neighborhood.
Open ArticleFitzgerald neighborhood’s $4 million-plus project to be led by The Platform, Century Partners
April 5th, 2017
A team has been chosen to take on a more than $4 million neighborhood redevelopment project in northwest Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood after a request for proposal was issued last summer. The project involves rehabilitating 115 vacant homes in the next two years as for-sale and for-rent and affordable and market-rate housing, creating a 2-acre park and landscaping 192 vacant lots.
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