An environmental organization is partnering with a Detroit nonprofit to revitalize a vacant lot. Piper Pharr, 9, was doing her part on Saturday, helping to clean up trash in the lot located on the ...
DETROIT – After two years of planning, construction has officially begun on what Detroit is calling its first solar neighborhoods. Crews broke ground Monday, Oct. 27, in the Van Dyke Lynch ...
Detroit has experienced population decline of nearly two-thirds since 1950 and continues to have a massive vacant residential lot problem. The AEI Housing Center estimates that Detroit has 134,000 ...
DETROIT – Detroit is full of vacant lots or empty parcels that many residents see as blight. But for one local nonprofit, those lots are opportunities: blank canvases that can become thriving spaces ...
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. City officials are seeking residential developers for ...
Detroit, once a city of more than 78,500 empty, blighted houses, is now home to more than 120,000 vacant lots, and finding new uses for those lots will be one of the city's next big steps in its ...
Detroit is running out of abandoned homes. Over the past decade, thousands of abandoned homes have been salvaged and rehabilitated, providing Detroiters access to affordable housing options. While the ...