You may have heard about Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation’s plans to demolish the long vacant and blighted old IHOP at 19505 Grand River. In its place, GRDC will build a new, mixed-use building that will include 42 one and two bedroom senior apartments. There will also be three community spaces set aside for communal activities.…
For eight years Nakita Thurmond-Simpson has delivered mail in Minock Park. Before coming to Minock Park, Nakita carried mail for nine years, most weeks adding some subbing time to her regular route. Nakita subbed in Minock Park for six months and got to know the community. She knew that if the area ever came up…
Erin Marquis spent her earliest years in Brightmoor, just a stone’s throw from where she lives now. While she’s currently not far from her original home, life has taken her to some really interesting places. It’s not all in the getting there, however. Life is also about how you get there, and Erin knows quite…
Our Spring 2015 Grandmont Rosedale Community Champion is Vicki Holmes. A resident of Minock Park since 1983, Vicki is a powerhouse volunteer and neighbor in every sense. Over the years she has given back to the community in many different ways including serving as President of the Minock Park Block Association, as a board member…
It’s a bright, sunny day when Ms. Neal takes a seat in the store room of her establishment to talk about her soul food restaurant Auntie Betty’s, 19601 Grand River in Minock Park. All around people can be heard coming in to pick up their orders and the small staff can be seen bustling about. …
Ken Wolfe is a great story teller. He comes by this honestly. His mom came from Southern Illinois, from “poor folks, where storytelling was the backwoods entertainment.” In order to be a great storyteller, however, one also has to have good material, and Ken has a lot of good material. Sitting on his porch watching…
Submitted by Kathy Garret For a couple of days during the first summer of GRDC’s Beautification Task Force, Vicki Holmes’ backyard looked like a wedding was about to take place. There were 50 rose bushes and “I don’t know how many flats of flowers” waiting on her back porch. Volunteers from all five neighborhoods came…
The trees have been dropped and they need to be planted this Saturday, June 8th! The Greening of Detroit will be planting trees on Plainview, Auburn, and Minock Streets in the Minock Park neighborhood of Grandmont Rosedale, in partnership with the Minock Park Block Association and the Detroit Partnership. Volunteers should meet at the lot…