Now the Fourth:
The Businesses That Will Lead Detroit http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/06/businesses-will-lead-detroit/2176/
Focusing on "cheap, affordable space and innovation. "If you want to rebuild a neighborhood, you're a lot better off starting with stuff people eat and drink. Movie theaters, fine, baseball stadiums great. But where people really want to go is to find places to eat and drink." -- Richard Florida
and the Fifth: The Future of Detroit
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/06/future-detroit/2237/
Who is Detroit attracting? the new urbanite, diverse, open to innovation.
BUT THEN the comments - I always read them, continually wanting to hear the voice of Detroit - linked me to this terrific video, great music and truly full of those voices:
Alex Gallegos' DETROIT BIKE CITY http://vimeo.com/25805461
In Detroit last spring I visited the Earthworks Urban Farm on the Eastside, run by the Capuchin Soup Kitchen/Capuchin Freres http://www.cskdetroit.org/EWG/ and was invited to return on that Wednesday for their weekly bike repair clinic. A place to be: for recreation, for living lives amid and connecting to others, for skills, for both youth and others, and for the dire reason that among the problems Detroit has faced that doesn't help those there to rise: the lack of public transportation that prevents those able to find a job to get to one.
Shane Bernardo (r), Outreach Coordinator of the The Capuchin Soup Kitchen -Earthworks Urban Farm
UPDATE 18 June 2012
The Detroit Bus Company, started as a private venture by Andy Didorosi, and trying to balance the needs of those in need of transportation with an economic structure that focusus on the tour industry while also aiming to connect jobs and the suburbs to the Detroit economic plan. "For every seat purchaed on a regular route, tour or private rental, we'll provide another Detroiter in need a free ride to work.".
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