Detroit is one of 20 cities in which middle school students will be given the opportunity to experiment with Verizon’s 5G technologies. The XR Hackathon took place Wednesday, Dec. 11 at the Northwest Activities Center.

A pilot shuttle designed to move shoppers up and down the Livernois corridor during road construction launches today.

Starting August 14, riders can park at 11 locations around the Avenue of Fashion and ride the shuttle for free between locations from August 14-16. Riders are encouraged to patronize the shops along the route.

The shuttles run from noon to 6 p.m. on weekdays. The pickup and drop-off locations are detailed in the map below.

Throughout the month of June, The Neighborhoods will be featuring stories from queer residents across the city. Today, we’re talking to Jessica and Cara who live in Bagley and are slowly creating their own gayborhood in the city.

In 2017, the City of Detroit’s Department of Media Services launched The Neighborhoods, a multimedia platform designed to tell the stories of Detroiters across the city.

For Spokes People, The Neighborhoods spoke to fashion designer Mandisa Smith of Detroit Fiber Works about her process for designing sustainable fashion wear and her hopes for the future of the industry.

A community meeting will be held on August 16 for residents in and around Livernois-McNichols to discuss proposed streetscape improvements to the area.

Top of the agenda for residents? A chance to sound off on the long-debated median along Livernois Avenue, which has been a source of back-and-forth for Detroiters for years. The City of Detroit Planning Department is looking to take feedback on possibly removing the median completely and instead widening the street or widening the sidewalk. 

A community meeting will be held on August 1 for residents in and around the Livernois-6 Mile neighborhoods to discuss design-centric improvements to the area.

The meeting is hosted by the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department as part of Design Center in a Box, a collaboration between the Cdepartment and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at UD Mercy. It is funded by the Knight Foundation’s Cities Challenge. 

The GOAL Line will be having its first enrollment fair for Detroit parents interested in getting their kids on a new bus loop serving 10 schools this fall.

A new bus loop serving 10 schools in Northwest Detroit debuts this fall, giving parents in several west side neighborhoods the option to allow their children to be picked up at a school nearest to their house and be dropped off at the school they attend and an after-school program on the loop if they choose.

District 2 residents are invited to discuss a pair of proposed streetscapes along the Livernois Avenue corridor during a community meeting with the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department Thursday night.

The two proposed options primarily affect the Avenue of Fashion between the University of Detroit Mercy and Eight Mile Road. Residents are asked to voice their feedback on whether to add bike lanes or an extended sidewalk on both sides of Livernois.