The Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office’s inaugural Blight Bootcamp on Saturday, June 7 will bring together the leadership of Detroit’s many successful blight fighting initiatives to speak with attendees […]
The Detroit Future City Implementation Office is thrilled that the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force has reached this critical milestone in the fight against blight. We were especially pleased that […]
Due to its long-standing fiscal challenges, Detroit has broadly underinvested in its transportation system as well as its supporting technology infrastructure, putting the overall system at a tipping point with […]
A model of community collaboration, innovation, and wise resource sharing that advances the recommendations of the Detroit Future City Strategic Framework is how Detroit Future City (DFC) Executive Director Kenneth […]
The open house has been cancelled due to inclement weather. WHAT: Open house at the Detroit Future City Implementation Office. WHY: For the community to learn more about Detroit Future […]
The Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office together with its community partners introduced its priorities for 2014-2015, unveiled a new brand and website, highlighted some of the 31 active projects […]
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.
