Lofts On Rowe
After sitting vacant for nearly 30 years, the 1892-brick building fronting a full city block on the edge of a residential neighborhood just north of Ludington’s downtown was rehabilitated into 67 residential units. Prior to the renovation, the building housed a series of manufacturing businesses including Carrom wooden games and Haskell Canoe Company, and served […]
The Brooke
The Brooke on Bagley is a $23 million mixed-use project located in Southwest Detroit in the Hubbard/Vernor neighborhood, near the newly redeveloped historic Michigan Central Station. The project was supported through Invest Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund, a public- private-philanthropic partnership that concentrates and coordinates high volumes of investment into 10 disinvested target neighborhoods, guided by […]
LOVE Building
Nonprofits in the city of Detroit have struggled in recent years to find quality, affordable office space, and many have been priced out of their existing offices as rents increased. The LOVE Building was purchased by Detroit-based Allied Media Projects in 2018 to provide a long-term home for its own operations and affordable spaces for […]
Raymond E. Shepherd House
Raymond E. Shepherd House is a new construction, 53-unit, affordable housing community recently constructed in Ferndale. Named after a well-known and loved community advocate and Ferndale resident, the Raymond E. Shepherd House is a permanent supportive housing project targeting elders in the LGBTQ+ community who are unhoused or at risk of becoming unhoused. This development […]
The Ribbon
The Ribbon is a new mixed-use affordable housing development in Detroit’s East Warren neighborhood. The project is the largest development along the E. Warren Ave. corridor in decades and will bring $8.2m of investment, including brand-new affordable residential housing and first floor retail. The Ribbon will help catalyze the neighborhood’s revitalization efforts, directly responding […]
Andy’s Place: Opioid Recovery and Healing Through Housing
In 2020 alone, 2,684 Michiganders died from opioid-related overdoses – more than any year prior, with a 14 percent increase over 2019. A new initiative launched in the state sees a solution in permanent supportive recovery housing. Through a unique partnership between recovery advocates, Michigan’s drug courts, and housing leaders, the innovative model known as […]
Marygrove Early Education Center (MEEC)
In 2015, an extensive analysis of Detroit’s early childhood education system found that only 21,000 licensed childcare slots were available to serve nearly 44,000 Detroit children aged birth to five, leaving a gap of 23,000 licensed child care slots. “The MEEC will create extraordinary opportunities for Detroit families. A child’s early years lay the foundation […]
Mott Community College Culinary Arts Institute
Looking to address high levels of unemployment and a poverty rate of 40% in Flint, MI, Mott Community College’s (MCC) Culinary Arts Institute sought to double its enrollment, thereby providing local residents much-needed career opportunities. The question they faced was, how to keep tuition affordable while raising the funding needed to build a bigger facility? […]
Commongrounds Cooperative
Located in Traverse City, Commongrounds Cooperative is a 48,000-square-foot, mixed-use facility designed to help build community wealth while meeting local needs and increasing the quality of life in the region. Owned by more than 900 community members through a cooperative model, the building houses local nonprofits and for-profit businesses in the arts, food, and health […]
Historic Webster School Renovation
This organization’s principals fully immersed themselves in the center of this once-forgotten and impoverished neighborhood. Before any improvement efforts were begun, they physically took up permanent residence in the heart of the area. They engaged neighbors without judgment, bias, or preconceived notions. They asked questions and actively listened to the residents about what was important […]