This fall, homeowners in the Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods will have a chance to be part of an historic campaign to establish a Special Assessment District in our community. All five area neighborhood associations have voted to join the campaign and urge their members to support it too. If enacted, the Special Assessment District would…
Anyone who steps foot into the home of Danni Wyche and her four children will notice right away what an athletic family they are. The house is humming with activity; all of the kids love to run and enjoy being active-especially 2-year-old Prince. Then there is 6-year-old Rashad who also plays baseball and runs track.…
It’s the season of graduations, outdoor birthday parties, block parties and weddings, and Tanisha Jones, Grandmont Rosedale resident and owner of Come Bounce with Us Entertainment has just the thing to make your party a great one: bounce houses! Everyone knows bounce houses make any party something to jump up and down about. Tanisha has…
“First, I gotta rest,” says Karen Johnson Moore, soon to leave her position as the Community Security Program Manager at GRDC. Her rest is well earned. In 2011 Karen signed on with GRDC for one year to spearhead the Special Assessment District initiative for the Grandmont Rosedale communities. Karen soon realized that this project to…
Grandmont Rosedale resident Razi Jafri realized at a young age that tennis is “an elegant sport, beautiful to watch and to play with a particular decorum and a culture of politeness.” It is also a fiercely competitive sport that demands focus and athleticism. Razi grew up playing tennis, has competed in tournaments and continues to…
Artist Hubert Massey will be returning to Grandmont Rosedale this July to install seven more mosaics on the new dugouts at Stoepel Park. If you’ve driven by or visited Stoepel this past year, you have seen the beautiful public art work of Hubert Massey and the Grandmont Rosedale kids who helped him design and install…
Both Jordyn and Leeah Burr are a bit shy about their accomplishments in track and field, but once they bring out their medals, plaques, patches and trophies, it becomes pretty difficult to understate just how good – or fast – they are. Jordyn is 6 years old and has set national records in the 60…
Hubert Massey will return this summer to install seven more mosaics on the dugouts at Stoepel Park this summer. Before he begins a public art project, Hubert asks the surrounding community for their ideas about how they want their community represented. On Saturday, April 4, Grandmont Rosedale residents will get their chance to share their…
After experiencing the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Jerome Vaughn realized something important about Detroit: “In the aftermath of the earthquake people were reacting by helping one another, doing everything from carrying firehoses to staying at each other’s houses. People do that in Detroit all the time.” Soon after the earthquake, Jerome headed back home to…
If you’ve ever helped out planting trees, or picking up litter, or volunteered on Detroit Partnership Day this past year, you’ve probably met Mary Lyons, the AmeriCorps VISTA member and GRDC Volunteer Outreach Coordinator. Come this spring, however, you will notice that there has been a change of guard. Mary has finished her term with…