Russell Woods-area residents invited to discuss neighborhood improvement plans at community meeting
A community meeting will be held for residents in and around the Russell Woods and Nardin Park areas to recommendations from the City of Detroit’s Planning Department on Strategic Neighborhood Fund-related improvements to the area on Thursday night.
After a series of community meetings, the Planning Department will unveil its plans based comments and other feedback from residents over the next year, culminating in a final meeting tentatively scheduled in January 2019.
How two couples are helping to build community in a coffee shop in Dexter-Linwood
On a street dotted with empty lots and few businesses, the last thing any Detroiter familiar with the Dexter-Linwood neighborhood would expect to see is a newly opened coffee shop. But Eleos (pronounced el-ee-OSS) Coffee at Dexter and Elmhurst is here, still holding steady after opening on this commercial corridor a year ago.
Can development come to Dexter Avenue? One man hopes so.
Every once in awhile, I think about the corned beef sandwiches from Dexter Esquire. The old sandwich shop that used to be on Dexter Avenue in Russell Woods, next to the Arbor Drugs that eventually became a CVS, is no more.
At The Neighborhoods, we’re interested in hearing from everybody in Detroit about what matters most to you.
Do you have a story to tell about what your community group is doing in the neighborhood? Tell us.
Do you have a story to tell about a home that needs to come down in your neighborhood? Tell us.