Thursday, June 5 from 4-8pm is the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Opening Day! To celebrate its ninth season and its new location at the North Rosedale Park Community House, 18445 Scarsdale, the Farmers’ Market is pulling out all the stops. Opening Day will feature an artisans’ market, live music, kids’ activities, and a raffle. In…
Sponsored by the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation’s Crime Prevention Task Force, residents from the northwest Detroit gathered at the North Rosedale Park Community House on April 24 to hear 6th and 8th precinct Officers Marshall, Coleman and Childrey address residents’ concerns. Questions from surveys submitted previous to the meeting were first answered by the officers. …
On Monday, May 19, the National Main Street Conference (NMSC) visited Grandmont Rosedale, specifically Grand River Avenue to get a look at how our community stays strong despite many obstacles. The National Main Street Conference is hosted by National Main Street Center Inc., which is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 as a subsidiary of…
On Sunday, May 18, many Grandmont Rosedale residents came to Always Brewing Detroit, dropped $5 in the SOUP kettle, took a ballot and then gathered under the tent set up behind the coffee shop to hear fellow residents pitch their ideas for making Grandmont Rosedale an even better place to live. After hearing four heart-felt,…
On Saturday, May 3rd, community members all across Detroit kicked off the annual spring cleaning event titled “Motor City Makeover”. In small and large groups, people took to the parks and streets to beautify the neighborhoods and show pride in our city. Motor City Makeover is an initiative through the City of Detroit, in partial…
If you would like to learn about community improvements happening in District 1, come to the District 1 meeting with Detroit Future City and its partners on Thursday, May 22 at the Brightmoor Community Center, 14451 Burt Road from 5-8pm. This meeting is designed to inform residents about the numerous events planned to improve the…
Coffee, community, and clean-up. That was the thinking behind Trash Talkin’ when Grandmont Rosedale residents saw a need to get others involved in picking up trash in the Grandmont Rosedale community. While it may seem strange to try to make picking up litter fun, the idea worked. Last year, Trash Talkin’ met four times, collected…
This summer will be the second summer GRDC is offering a creative arts program for Grandmont Rosedale area youth ages 13-17. This free, summer-long arts program will meet twice a week, Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-5pm at the Chaney Branch Library, 16101 Grand River. Local artists from all over Detroit will work with the program…
Rosedale Recycles, the all-volunteer run recycling drop-off site at Christ the King Church celebrates its 24th year in service to the Grandmont Rosedale community! That’s 24 years of collecting such recyclables as newspapers, office paper, glass, tin, aluminum, cardboard, #1 and #2 plastic, and, twice a year, hazardous waste. Rosedale Park resident Margaret Weber, who…
Beverly Frederick of North Rosedale Park saw an issue that needed to be addressed, and simply started to take care of it herself. According to Mary Lyons, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator of GRDC, Beverly noticed that several vacant houses on Stahelin Street needed to be mowed, and” just headed over there with her lawn mower”. …