Detroit Works Project Long Term Planning
The Detroit Works Project was introduced in 2010 as a process to create a shared, achievable vision for the future of Detroit that could serve as a guide for improving the physical, social and economic landscape of our city.
In July 2011 Mayor Dave Bing separated the Detroit Works Project into two tracks, Short Term Actions and Long Term Planning. City officials spearhead the Short Term Actions, which is work being done to realign some city services and leverage available resources to make improvements in neighborhoods based on their market conditions.
The Long Term Planning for the project is being led by the DCDC, with support from Michigan Community Resources. A Steering Committee oversees the work of the technical and civic engagement teams that are charged with developing meaningful and inclusive engagement strategies to gather the expertise of the community and combine it with the technical analysis; and then produce a strategic framework plan for our future.
Learn more at www.detroitworksproject.com
Partners: Norm Bent, Hispanic Consortium, Latino Agenda; Phil Cooley, Slows Bar-B-Q; Ponsella Hardaway, Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength; Luther Keith, Arise Detroit; Angela Reyes, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation; James Ribbron, MSU Extension; Christianne Sims, Urbanize(D); Alice Thompson, Black Family Development Inc.; Steve Tobocman, Community Development Advocates of Detroit; Sandra Turner-Handy, Michigan Environmental Council; Diane VanBuren, Zachary & Associates; Dan Varner, Excellent Schools Detroit; Heaster Wheeler, Wayne County; Guy Williams, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Rebecca Witt, Greening of Detroit; Don Chen, Ford Foundation; Tyrone Davenport, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; Bishop Charles Ellis, Greater Grace Temple; Lydia Gutierrez, Hacienda Mexican Foods; George W. Jackson Jr., Detroit Economic Growth Corporation; Rodderick Rickman, Rickman Enterprises; Dr. George Swan III, Ed.D Wayne County; Alice Thompson, Black Family Development Inc.; Marcell Todd, Jr., Detroit City Planning Commission; Laura Trudeau, Kresge Foundation; Heaster Wheeler, Wayne County; Marja Winters, Detroit Planning and Development Department; Troy Adam, Henniges Automotive; Larry Alexander, Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau; Birdies Anderson, After School Connect; Erick Barnes, University of Detroit Mercy; Rufus Bartell, Simply Casual Clothing Store; Russ Bellant, Helco Book Club; Dolores Bennett, North End Improvement Council; Fay Beydoun, American Arab Chamber of Commerce; Austin Black II, City Living Detroit; Robert Bland, Councilwoman Joanne Watson; David Blaszkiewicz, Detroit Investment Fund; Paul Bridgewater, Detroit Area Agency of Aging; Edward Egnatios, Skillman Foundation; Tom Goddeeris, Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation; Anika Goss-Foster, Local Initiatves Support Corporation; Lydia Gutierrez, Hacienda Mexican Foods; Ponsella Hardaway, Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength; Charity Hicks, East Michigan Environmental Action Council; Adam Hollier, State Representative Bert Johnson; Michelle Jackson, Green Explosion; Andre Johnson, Detroit Recovery Project; William F. Jones, Focus:Hope; Christine Kageff, JP Morgan Chase Foundation; Luther Keith, Arise Detroit; Renee Kent, PNC Bank Community Development, Grandmont Rosedale; Ann Lang, Downtown Detroit Partnership; Sharon Madison-Polk, Madison Madison International; Conrad Mallet, Jr., DMC Sinai Grace Hospital; Martin Manna, Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce; Scott Mason, Youth Representative; Patricia McCants, You Can International; Kwamena Mensa, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Faye Nelson, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy; Steve Ogden, Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative; Dan Ringo, International Union of Engineers Local 324; Shenay Shumake, Solid Rock Assembly of God; Christianne Sims, Urbanize(D); Shirley Stancato, New Detroit, Inc.; Kim Tandy, Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association; Alice Thompson, Black Family Development Inc.; Tim Thorland, Community Development Advocates of Detroit; James Thower, Sr., JamJomar; Kevin Tolbert, United Auto Workers; Khary Turner, Black Bottom Collective; Jerome Warfield, Sr., Brightmoor Alliance, Inc.; Kathleen Wendler, Southwest Detroit Business Association; Heather Wheeler, NAACP; Alan Scott-White, Wise Commercial Real Estate; Donele Wilkins, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Charles Williams II, Historic King Solomon Baptist Church; Thomas Woiwode, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; Kathryn Barnett; Brandon Byrd; Jalanda Carson; Paul Fields; G. Bomani Gray; Essie Jones; Amos Mixon; Stacey Ross-Streeter; Darren X. Taylor; Regina Thompson; Karen C. Walker; Lauren Ryder-Williams; Ade Oba Abdulla; Jeff Adams, City Mission Brightmoor Alliance; Bernadette Beach, St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center; Katrina Bines; Rita Black, Rita's Crafty Stitchery; Beverlyn Brown, CEMBA; Caryl Conway, Blackstone Park Association; Diane Crawford; Anthony Dicus McDougall Hunt, Citizens District Council; Kimberly Faison; Bradford Frsot, Detroit Institute of Arts; Donna Gardner, The Villages CDC; G. Bomani Gray; Gehad Hadidi, The New Detroiter; Eugene Harris Moses, Southwest Church of God; Susan Hawkins, Nine 2 Five, Inc.; Beverly Hilton; Mark Hoffman; Melissa Holland; Annie Mae Holt, Grandmont #1 Association; Rachel Hone, Care of Southeast Michigan; Michelle Jackson, Sustainable Community Farms; Ruth E. Johnson, Transportation Riders United; Essie Jones; Denise Kennedy; Erma Leaphart-Gouch; Gwen Lewis; Cynthia Miller; Elois Moore, AFT Local 4168 Daeue; Bonnie Odom-Brown; Nana Dansoa Paintsil; Bob Prud'homme, Detroit Regional Chapter US Green Buildling Council; Phillip Pugh; Anika E. Sandy-Hanson, JAWL, LLC; Terry Shaw, CEMBA; Stacey Ross-Streeter; Regina Thompson; Diann Vaughn; Karen C. Walker; Joe White, Green Seed; Lauren Ryder-Williams; Samuel Young; Community Development Advocates of Detroit; Community Resource Forum; City Mission; City of Detroit; Detroit Area Agency on Aging; Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Michigan Community Resources; Michigan Environmental Council; Michigan State University Extension; Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength; University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture; Toni L. Griffin, Urban Planning and Design for the American City; Hamilton Anderson Associates; AEOCOM; Carlisle Wortman Associates, Inc.; Center for Community Progress; Happold Consulting; HRA Advisors; Initiative for A Competitive Inner City; Interface Studio; Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, LLP; Stoss Landscape Urbanism; Canning Communications; Grassroots Solutions; Lovio George Communications and Design
Check out the strategic framework plan here!