Attend the Community Meeting for the New, Mixed-Use Building Coming to 19505 Grand River

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.…

Grannies Pound Cakes: A Northwest Detroit Farmers’ Market Favorite

When friends and family urged Patrice Davis, “You should sell these, they are delicious!” Patrice did not have being a farmers’ market vendor in mind. Patrice knew her baked goods were delicious. After all, her goal was to bake butter pound cakes like her Aunt Amy. Patrice experimented a while, tweaked the recipe, and although…

Join the Grandmont Rosedale Volunteers, and Support the Students and Staff at Cooke S.T.E.M. Academy Elementary School

The halls of Cooke S.T.E.M. Academy Elementary School on 18800 Puritan are filled with things you’d find at any elementary school: colorful artwork, lockers with kids’ names on them, lines of kids headed toward the bathrooms or the library or the gym, the kid who’s a bit late, hustling just this side of a run,…

North Rosedale’s President

Submitted by Kathy Garrett One of Hubert Sawyers’ earliest memories is of his fifth birthday party at his parents’ house on Warwick. Soon, Hubert was getting up early to make it to Cooke School, then Murphy Middle School, then Cass Tech. Inspired by a trip to Japan in 1995, Hubert majored in International Studies at MSU.…

North Rosedale Park Community House Programming Survey

The North Rosedale Park Civic Association is currently undergoing a Capital Campaign improvement project to renovate the Community House and surrounding grounds.  One of the many goals of the project is to implement new programming and activities that will support the needs and interests of all residents of North Rosedale Park and the larger Grandmont…