Detroit Future City Deputy Director, Tom Goddeeris, wrote a Crain's Detroit Business "Other Voices" piece that suggests three strategies that encourage the reuse of vacant industrial property in ways that will provide jobs and other benefits to city residents.
In her latest article, Ingrid Jacques of the Detroit News talks the need to grow Detroit's neighborhoods and mentions Detroit Future City's "Growing Detroit's African-American Middle-Class."
Industrial Districts: Rethinking Strategies for Adaptive Reuse Detroit has nearly 900 vacant industrial buildings and sites scattered throughout its extensive network of industrial districts. Innovative strategies will be needed to […]
Stephen Henderson of WDET talks with Detroit Future City executive director, Anika Goss, about the current realities of living, raising families and opening businesses in the city of Detroit.
Detroit resident Wendy Edwards shares her life story and how she and the rest of the Mohican Regent Resident Association are using their 2019 Working with Lots grant. Detroit Future City's Community Partnerships Manager, Shari Williams, also shares the benefits of transforming vacant lots in Detroit.
The DFC Strategic Framework, a shared vision for Detroit’s future, is the result of a massive, citywide public-engagement effort. It recommends a series of ideas, strategies and approaches on how to best use the city’s abundance of land, create job growth and economic prosperity, ensure vibrant neighborhoods, build an infrastructure that serves citizens at a reasonable cost, and maintain the high level of community engagement integral to the long-term revitalization of Detroit.
The Field Guide to Working with Lots is a user-friendly tool to connect Detroit residents, businesses, and institutions to resources to learn, collaborate, and better practice land stewardship in Detroit. This step-by-step guide provides readers with instructions on how to transform vacant land in their neighborhoods into 38 landscape designs ranging from installation by beginning gardeners to professional contractors. View the interactive guide now.
Detroit Future City’s (DFC) report, “The State of Economic Equity in Detroit,” illustrates the deep disparities that persist in Detroit and provides recommendations that provide a path to an economically equitable Detroit in which all Detroiters are meeting their unique needs, prospering, and fully and fairly participating in all aspects of economic life within a thriving city and region.
