Starting about 1pm this Sunday, May 4, visitors will be coming to the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods to see several homes that are listed for sale, to tour the neighborhoods, and to see if Grandmont Rosedale is indeed a place where they belong. The 9th Annual Neighborhood Open House is this Sunday, May 4 from 1…
North Rosedale Park resident, Community House Building Manager and book club coordinator Nicole Daniels set up another table to accommodate the women who were arriving, books in hand. Shirl Ryan brought Jollof rice, a dish popular in Nigeria, the setting of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, the novel they were set to…
Do you have a concern about a blighted building in your neighborhood? You are invited to come to a Report Blight! Meeting at the 6/8th Precinct at 11450 Warwick Street on the first Thursday of every month, at 2:30 pm (next meeting is May 1st.) You may voice your concerns to the DPD Environmental Affairs…
The Grandmont Rosedale Community Garden volunteers are busy getting the community garden at Bushnell Church ready for a delicious growing season! On Detroit Partnership Day woodchips were spread along the paths, and the gardens were cleared of debris that accumulated over the winter. Last Saturday, the beds were cleaned out and the dirt turned over. …
Residents from the five Grandmont Rosedale communities have been gathering to discuss ways to make our area safer and cleaner by reducing the speed and volume of traffic through our neighborhoods. The particular method that this group is working on to achieve this is called “Traffic Calming”. The Traffic Calming Committee has begun collecting feedback…
Calling all neighbors, coaches, parents, and baseball players! Grab your work gloves and rakes! Let’s get Stoepel Park ready for some baseball! It’s been a long, cold winter and Stoepel needs some sprucing up before we can enjoy watching our Rosedale Grandmont Little League teams play. From 9 am -12 pm on Saturday, April 19…
Did you participate in National Record Store Day, the day that celebrates independent record stores, new vinyl releases and the people who love old school records? Did you finally get your hands on an album that you’ve been looking for, for ages? Did you find an old favorite you haven’t seen in a while? Did…
Submitted by Kathy Garrett Susan Laing and Alex Derdelakos attended the Grandmont Rosedale Neighborhood Open House two years ago, in 2012. This year, Susan and Alex are celebrating their first anniversary in their Rosedale home. When they decided to start looking for a home, Alex and Susan thought going to the May Open House would…
Submitted by Kathy Garrett Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm neighbors gather at the North Rosedale Park Community House to walk and exercise their way to a healthier life. As a pilot program sponsored by the Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP), Walk in the Park is one of the first of…
On Thursday, April 3, more than 20 residents of the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods took advantage of the Tax Foreclosure Prevention Workshop facilitated by the United Community Housing Coalition and hosted by Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation. Ted Phillips, the director of UCHC, and several of his coworkers offered residents counseling on how to cope with the…