Model D Special Event: The Next Big Thing

Model D Special Event: The Next Big Thing Model D Staff | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Over six years and 300 issues (and counting), Model D has documented what’s next for Detroit, from big development and investment, to small ideas and quirky innovation. Add up the thousands of stories told every Tuesday in vivid words [...]

25th Annual UM/ULI Real Estate Forum at Cobo Center

Real estate professionals across the country have experienced heightened challenges in recent years with Detroit at the forefront: “If there’s any city that symbolizes the most extreme effects of the nation’s economic crisis and, in particular, America’s housing crisis, it is Detroit.” Detroit’s real estate evolution has become a major media focus and what happens [...]

YMCA Announces Push To Teach All Detroit Kids to Swim

Every single child in the City of Detroit should learn to swim by the 5th grade The YMCA’s Urban Swim program announces on October 4th, the launch of a fundraising push to ensure all the city’s children will learn to swim by the 5th grade. The YMCA began the program as a pilot one-year ago [...]

Urbanized at the Detroit Film Theatre

Urbanized | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 | 7:00pm at the Detroit Film Theatre | Directed by Gary Hustwit Urbanized is a documentary about the design of cities such as Detroit, and the strategies behind urban design discussed by the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an [...]