Community Revitalization Newsletter Archives

 

July 2004 Issue

- Book Review: “Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation

  That Works.”
- J&A helps develop the New San Marco Apartments in Duluth,

  Minnesota
- Dawoud Bey and Chadsey High School at the Detroit Institute of

  Arts
- Create Detroit Up and Running

 

June 2004 Issue

- Work in Detroit...and Live there too
- Revitalife Program Announcement
- In Case you missed it...recent articles from the Detroit Free Press  

  and the Duluth News Tribune
- America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, Madison Lenox Hotel

   (article courtesy of National Trust for Historic Preservation)
- Reflection on the recent Mackinac Policy Conference
- Don't Forget Comerica's TasteFest

 

May 2004 Issue

- Cool Cities Means Great Places

- Upcoming Appearances:  Let's Do Lunch Duluth and Ideas Before

     Dawn

- Detroit’s Mistake in Excluding Home-Based Businesses Behind the

     Tattered Fabric of the Iron Curtain: A Legal Week in Cuba

by Michael Boettcher

- Celebrating the Music that Moved Detroit and the World

- Seven Mile Project Celebrates Detroit Middle Eastern Community  

by Veronica Yono-Hindo of the Arab American and Chaldean Council

 

April 2004 Issue

- Solutions for Affordable Housing (Part IV)
-J&A/SmithGroup JJR announces SMRT Team for Cool Cities
-National Main Street Conference and Main Street News features

Juergensen & Associates

-Orange Barrel Slalom: Rethinking our Transportation Investments
-Cali Chronicles - Memories of the PCH
-The Original Detroit Music Scenesters:  Gospel Music

 

March 2004 Issue

-Create Detroit Kicks Off, Time to go to work
-Affordable Housing's Dirty Little Secret (pt. III)
-J&A Published in the Aprill Issue of the Main Street News
-Redlines and Refinancing
-St. Patrick’s Day Redux: A visit to Dublin, one of THE Cool Cities
-Guest Column: Historic Preservation in Michigan
         by Nancy Finegood, Michigan Historic Preservation Network

 

February 2004 Issue

-Create Detroit Event Set for March 3 & 4

-Interview with Richard Florida of the Rise of the Creative Class

-Detroit and Michigan's Historic Preservation Irony

-Gay Marriage and Economic Development

-Blight, Sprawl, and the Bully Pulpit

-Guest Column: U-M Team Tackles Land BANK ISSUE

by Amy Brooks, Demetria Collins, Barbara Eichmuller, Melisa Tintocalis and Simon Van Leeuwen of the Taubman College of Archecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

 

January 2004 Issue

- Michigan's Economic Development Challenge (MEDC)
- New Land Bank Law Creates Opportunity
- Revitalife Rolls Out Property Portfolio
- SoBe's (Miami) Art Deco Mystique Encourages Investment
- R iverfront: Detroit Needs More Park, Not Less
- Guest Column: Detroit LISC & City of Detroit Partner on Land
Disposition Initiative

by Anika Goss-Foster, Detroit LISC

 

December 2003 Issue

- J&A Help Define Cool Cities

- Detroit's Affordable Housing Challenge (part II)

- Revitalife Workshop Announcement

- St. Louis Ain't Singin' the Blues

- Ruth's House to Open

- Duluth Warms up to Preservation

-J&A Holiday Greeting

 

November 2003 Issue

- City of Ludington,

- Richard Florida

- J&A in Duluth, Minnesota

- Positive Images

- San Francisco, San Jose and Denver

- Detroit's Housing Opportunity and Challenge (part I)

 
Links
 
Atlanta/Fulton County Land Bank
 
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library (Denver)
 
Cleveland Land Bank Authority
 
CreativeClass.org
 
Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation
 
Detroit Orientation Institute
 
Downtown Now! St. Louis
 
Downtown St. Louis Partnership
 
Downtown Duluth
 
Ludington, Michigan
 
Messiah Housing Corporation (Detroit)
 
Michigan State Housing Development Authority
 
National Trust for Historic Preservation
 
National Main Street Center