The lively drumming of Nanou Dijapo matched the buzz of Detroit pride as hundreds working to maintain and improve Detroit neighborhoods poured into the Grand Riverview Ballroom at Cobo Center. Over a dozen Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation board members and staff attended the Annual Detroit Community Development Awards banquet to accept the honor of Community…
Regina Ward and Nicole Martin are old friends. Years ago they were roommates and worked together at a music store. Different life decisions led them for a while on different paths. They lost touch for 10 years. Yoga (and Facebook) brought them back together. When they found each other again, they also learned about REVOLVE…
There will be a Grandmont Rosedale Community Bus Tour on Thursday, Sept. 18 leaving from the Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market, 18445 Scarsdale, at 5, 6, and 7pm. On the trip you will be able to check out the many improvements GRDC has made in your community in the past year. Several renovated houses will be…
Yvette Jenkins will open her shop, Love Travels Imports in the Grand River WorkPlace, 19120 Grand River, on Saturday, Sept. 20, and she is very excited. Her pop-up store combines her loves of travel, hand-made art, and her desire to know about the artists whose work she buys. Yvette’s store will sell fair trade goods…
Looking for a new way for your friends and family to have fun? Sherrie Savage of Car-Go Paint has got an idea for you! For a fee of $25 or $30 a person, Sherrie will direct a group of people to paint a picture based either on a theme of the group’s choosing, or a…
The system works: Volunteers weed, rake, mow, help build a fence, pick, and then they “shop” for produce such as cucumbers, basil, squash, garlic, and strawberries before they head home. Usually there are 6-12 people who help out Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm at GRDC’s Community Garden, and usually there isn’t much produce left over. Some…
On July 16, more than 60 residents from all over Detroit gathered at the GRDC offices for the Citizens Radio Patrol Recruitment Workshop. Hosted by GRDC’s Karen Johnson Moore and Kiana Miller, the workshop encouraged new and veteran citizens radio patrol groups throughout the city. Community Security Coordinator with the 6th and 8th Precincts Myra…
You know someone’s life has made an impact when the people who attend the final service can hardly fit in the building. Morris Goodman packed the Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church on Monday, August 4, the day when his many friends and family from many various places gathered to bid their friend, confidante, inspiration and even…
Since mid- June, young artists in the Loyal to Your Soil Youth Arts Program sponsored by GRDC and funded by the Knight Foundation have been meeting twice a week to learn about and produce a wide variety of original art. This free program for 13-17 year olds meets at the Chaney Library every Monday and…
Lisa Grace remembers her old neighborhood as an idyllic place: summer days were spent outside riding bikes and playing at the park at the end of her street chasing down Gordy the ice cream man and, like many kids in Detroit, coming home when the street lights came on. Little did Lisa know as a…