This spring, North Rosedale Park Civic Association and Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation, neighborhood block clubs on Detroit’s westside, will implement DFC’s Native Butterfly Meadow and Friendly Fence lot designs to add color and beauty to the lot while also creating a stormwater solution so that neighbors can disconnect their downspouts and re-route this water into a shared, larger rain […]
This month, the Challenge Detroit fellows combined DFC’s Urban Edge and Dumping Preventer lot designs to enrich the beauty of a site on Detroit’s westside by transforming the vacant lot into an open space amenity and to reduce the risk of illegal dumping by creating a planted visual barrier between the road and the lot. Click here […]
In response to our May 4 feature, “Collateral damage,” Anika Goss-Foster, the executive director of Detroit Future City, wrote: On behalf of the 100,000 plus Detroiters whose input informed the Detroit Future City (DFC) Strategic Framework, I must correct the false statements made in relation to the plan and our work. The DFC Strategic Framework […]