There is a plan for Detroit. It is called Detroit Future City. Read more about it. Located in Eastern Market 2929 Russell Street. Website is http://dev.detroitworksproject.com/ The plan is for citizens in a community to come up with ideas of what they want their community to look like. Drafts that are developed are constantly updated. Everything is still being worked out. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE?
The Avenue of Fashion on Livernois is being revitalized. A project chosen by Detroit Works Partnership http://blog.thedetroithub.com/2012/08/03/detroit-avenue-of-fashion-livernois-hotspot/ Detroit Future City hotline toll free at 800-234-7184
You can see the blueprint of what Detroit will look like in the future. It is currently on display at different places throughout the City http://detroitworksproject.com/road-show-locations/ The Detroit Public Library Parkman Branch has the DFC Road Show on display and a reference copy of the DFC Framework. The Parkman Branch library is located at (313) 481-1810 1766 Oakman Blvd. Detroit, MI 48238
"Dan Kinkead, Design Principal with Hamilton Anderson Associates will be the Director; and Heidi Alcock, Chief Executive Officer with Michigan Community Resources will be the Senior Program Manager. Both were strong leaders throughout the planning process, and have extensive knowledge about how to translate the strategic framework into real progress. They both will officially begin on May 6, 2013." Taken from Detroit Economic Growth Corporation letter.
DFC City Systems Priority - Renew Systems Strategically and Innovatively
Detroit has a critical need to establish more long-lasting,
cost-effective and innovative city systems, such as water, waste,
energy, transportation and communications. Such infrastructure can
improve quality of life for Detroiters by essential reinvestment and
employment growth, encouraging thriving communities and improving
environmental and health conditions.
After 60 years of disinvestment and depopulation in Detroit, we must
consider system renewal thoughtfully and strategically to link
infrastructures to current and future needs. By moving beyond
traditional legacy infrastructures to improve systems delivery while
reducing costs, we can develop the essential value proposition for
residents and businesses to be in Detroit.
To accomplish these goals, the Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office is working across three major lines of effort:
1. Strategic Infrastructure Renewal
The city can improve the service quality by upgrading and maintaining
infrastructure in areas of higher density and demand while reducing
excess system capacity in areas of lower demand.
• Master Plan of Policies Update: DFC’s
update to the City’s Master Plan included guidance on how the City
could be strategic in its infrastructure investment decisions.
• Detroit 2.0 Human Capital Support : DFC advised the White
House team of municipal technology experts during their visit to
Detroit. DFC worked with Detroit’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO)
to identify, recruit, and place a Deputy Director for Civic Community
Engagement. DFC continues to support the City in sourcing services for
opening city data.
2. Landscape as 21st Century Infrastructure
By investing in sustainable natural systems in the form of green and
blue infrastructure as opposed to costly grey infrastructure, Detroit
can mitigate stormwater runoff into the Great Lakes, improve air
quality, reduce heat island effect, beautify neighborhoods and provide
new amenities that improve the quality of life for Detroit residents.
• Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Project will deploy green infrastructure to manage and retain stormwater in Detroit’s lower east side drainage district.
• Dendro-remediation Pilot Project: Dendro-remediation
is the process by which trees are planted to reduce and eliminate toxic
substances in the soil over time. DFC has supported the Greening of
Detroit by identifying sites for dendro-remediation implementation.
• Carbon Buffer Pilot Project: Through
the treatment of vacant land near sources of pollution, including
expressways, “carbon buffers” absorb carbon dioxide, block particulate
matter and mitigate other pollution stemming from vehicular traffic and
industry. DFC is currently working with the Greening of Detroit and the
Michigan Department of Transportation to finalize pilot locations for
carbon buffer plantings in fall 2014.
• Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) Performance Rate Reduction Pilot seeks
to pilot the use of innovative blue infrastructure as a means of
cleaning and managing stormwater, exploring the policy and fee structure
changes needed to allow Detroit to become a healthier, greener city and
a model for 21st century best practices in sustainable development and
resiliency.
3. Diversified Transportation for Detroit and the Region
Detroit’s transportation system, from the road network to public
transit, can be reconfigured to align with the emerging needs of the
city and the region.
• Tiered Transit Recommendations: DFC has advised City of
Detroit policy makers on how to reconfigure transportation to improve
service and reduce cost by establishing a tiered transit system with
express bus service to micro-transit.
• University of Michigan Social Impact Challenge: DFC
was the University of Michigan’s Nonprofit Management Center 2014
partner organization for the Social Impact Challenge. DFC created a
challenge that focuses on developing strategic and tactical
recommendations that increase connectivity and improve mobility for
Detroiters in three high vacancy neighborhoods. Over 15
multidisciplinary teams responded to the challenge, with the winner
announced in spring 2014.
See the In the News section below for articles about the recent
flood and how DFC's blue and green infrastructure recommendations and
initiatives could help minimize the negative impacts of future rain
events.
The Detroit News Focuses on Detroit Future City's Efforts to Transform Detroit
Detroit Future City helps shape public, private visions into area's transformation
September 4, 2014
By Laura Berman
 Kenneth
Cockrel Jr. has been a Detroit City Council member, council president
and — for six months in 2013 — the city’s mayor. But for the last nine
months, as the executive director at Detroit Future City, he’s seen
Detroit anew. “It’s a view from the balcony,” he says.
As a city official, Cockrel recalls being busy solving crises, “so
focused on the daily grind, putting out fires every day, that you don’t
get a chance to think about how to prevent fires from starting.”
Now, the city’s future — and how to get there — is the only job for
Cockrel and his co-workers at the concrete-floored, urban-rustic DFC
implementation office on West Grand Boulevard.
How do you transform a city
laden with 19th century infrastructure, 20 square miles of vacant land
and a history of insolvency? How do you help public and private entities
pick and choose the best ideas — and those likeliest to succeed — in
the future? How do you even get them to ask you for help?
Read the full article here.
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http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs178/1108901228731/archive/1113125461882.html
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs178/1108901228731/archive/1113413520105.html
Click the link to read a story about what Detroit could look like in 2033 and beyond
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/detroit-in-20-years-2033_n_4269422.html
The
Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office together with its community
partners introduced its priorities for 2014-2015, unveiled a new brand and
website, highlighted some of the 31 active projects their involved with and
announced some activities to connect with the broader community.
DFC
Executive Director Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr. today was joined by members from the
organization’s 32-member steering committee and 11 implementation team members
who presented at their new implementation office to residents, faith-based
leaders, advocacy groups, economic development gurus, philanthropic
organizations and business owners. The DFC Implementation Office is located at
2990 W. Grand Blvd.
“Working with our partners in the
community over the last 10 months, we have been able to identify five key
priorities from the DFC Strategic Framework that the DFC Implementation Office
will direct its energy toward in 2014 and 2015,” said Cockrel. “The areas of
focus we have selected are critical to the long-term viability of our city and
must be addressed first.”
The
DFC Implementation Office coordinates with stakeholders to inform
decision-making, build capacity, and fulfill the objectives of the DFC Strategic
Framework. Following a year of extensive research and collaboration after the
release of the DFC Strategic Framework, the DFC Implementation Office set forth
the following priorities and initiatives that are already in
progress.
·
Assessing the
economic state of the city
·
Minority
business development
·
Small
business policy reform
·
Supporting
entrepreneurship
·
Supporting
the update of the City’s Master Plan of Policies
·
Supporting
the creation of employment districts
·
Offering
guidance on strategic renewal programs for utilities
·
Supporting a
review of capital budget practices by government
·
Transportation systems reform
·
Improving
City of Detroit technological systems
·
Blight
elimination programs
·
Working with
partners to increase public safety
·
Community-based placemaking
·
Initiating an
integrated open space plan
·
Creating
green infrastructure programs
Cockrel highlighted some projects
that were worked on in 2013 such as the Hardest Hit Fund and the
Partial Deconstruction Project. He also listed examples of projects the team
will tend to in 2014 and 2015 to help fulfill each of the five priorities, they
were:
·
Live-work
Program: 1-96 Industrial Corridor,
·
Updating the
Citywide Master Plan of Policies,
·
Carbon
Buffers,
·
Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative, and
·
A Vacant
Property Handbook
Cockrel went on to say that “civic
engagement is an important component that is threaded throughout all of the work
we do.” He punctuated his statement by inviting a student from Denby High
School to the podium to discuss how the DFC Strategic Framework has been
incorporated into their curriculum.
Before talking about the priorities and
projects, Cockrel introduced the team along with the steering committee. He
listed the DFC Implementation Office’s many achievements during its 10 short
months since being formed, and also revealed the organization’s new logo,
website, and marketing materials.
To
help people connect with the Detroit Future City, Cockrel announced the DFC
Implementation Office is going to partner with community groups and other
stakeholders over the next several months.
During Thursday’s event, well-respected
local leaders expressed their support for DFC, including Deputy Mayor Ike
McKinnon, Rip Rapson, president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation and Detroit
Economic Growth Corporation president and CEO George W. Jackson, Jr., who also
serves as chair of the DFC Implementation Office steering committee.
“We
have seen many plans come and go in this city because they fall short when it
comes to execution, but Detroit Future City has staying power,” said Jackson.
“DFC will be making an impact on our city for a long time because the strategic
framework’s innovative yet pragmatic concepts have been embraced and there is a
talented Implementation Office that has quickly proven its an invaluable
resource for businesses, non-profits, residents and government agencies.
Detroit Future City is the starting point for advancing the transformation of
Detroit.”
“In
just a year’s time, we’ve seen the ideas embodied in the Detroit Future City
Framework move from the aspirational to the achievable,” said Rapson, who last
year pledged to align the foundation’s spending in Detroit with Detroit Future
City, a pledge of $150 million over five years. “The framework’s soaring
ambitions — created through the input of thousands of residents — are being
embodied in concrete projects across the city, projects that bolster not only a
thriving Woodward Corridor, but green, healthy, active neighborhoods
throughout.”
Connect with the DFC Implementation
Office by visiting 2990 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 2 Detroit, MI 48202, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. E-mail info@detroitfuturecity.com or
call 313-259-4407. For ongoing updates, visit www.DetroitFutureCity.com, subscribe to the e-newsletter, or
engage with through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest or YouTube.
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Eliminating Blight in Detroit's Neighborhoods
Blight removal is one of the most important steps towards improving
quality of life in Detroit and it touches on almost every recommendation
in the DFC Strategic Framework. When well-managed, transforming blight
can include the creation of functional open space to stabilize
neighborhoods, improve city systems, and provide economic development
opportunities.
The Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office is helping tackle
blight by informing decision makers, executing research-driven pilot
projects to determine best practices, and conducting extensive civic
engagement.
Through our Partial Deconstruction Project
in the Springwells neighborhood, we were able to measure the how the
partial deconstruction and demolition of 10 blighted structures can
create jobs and to what extent these practices release dust, lead and
other heavy metals into the air and soil. These practices, and several
other recommendations from the DFC Strategic Framework, were referenced
in a recent draft update to the Master Plan of Policies
by the DFC Implementation Office, and provided to the City of Detroit.
They were also noted in the recently released Blight Removal Taskforce
report.
Additionally, the DFC Implementation Office held a Blight Bootcamp on
Saturday, June 7th to equip the community with the tools and resources
to take blight removal into their own hands. And in March we
collaborated with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to convene a
group of local stakeholders and organize a day-long workshop on demolition best practices.
Here is more information about the DFC projects referenced above:
Here are some of the DFC Implementation Office’s partner organizations’ blight removal efforts:
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DFC's 2014 Blight Bootcamp
Detroit Future City hosted a Blight Bootcamp on Saturday, June 7,
attracting more than 200 people. The day-long event had 12 sessions on
blight elimination including transforming blight into urban gardens,
youth engagement in blight mitigation and data driven decision making.
During the day, keynote speakers, Linda Smith, co-chairperson of the
Blight Removal Task Force and Charlie Beckham, executive director of the
Detroit Department of Neighborhoods gave an overview on how their
organizations are taking action to eradicate blight in the city.
This event would be impossible without our community partners. Click here for a full list of these organizations.
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DFC Partners with Challenge Detroit for Blight Challenge
 Challenge
Detroit, a leadership and professional development program, partnered
with DFC Implementation Office for their final challenge of the year.
The fellows were charged to find solutions for blight elimination in
Detroit looking through the lens of the DFC Strategic Framework. Five
teams worked in neighborhoods across the city and partnered with
community organizations to develop blight elimination ideas ranging from
summer youth to community engagement strategies. To conclude this last
challenge, the fellows presented an infographic of their presentations
on DFC Implementation Office's front windows. This challenge gave the
fellows an opportunity to provide on-the-ground solutions that will be
instrumental in enriching the work of the city of Detroit and the Blight
Removal Task Force’s blight removal efforts in all Detroit
neighborhoods.
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DFC Partners with College for Creative Studies program
community+public arts: DETROIT (CPAD), a program of the College for Creative Studies, is partnering with the Detroit Future City Implementation Office and The Greening of Detroit to work with artists and four Detroit communities to transform vacant and underused spaces into New Urban Places.
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Arise Detroit's Neighborhood Day
More than
100 community service and improvement projects will take place in every
part of the city. From neighborhood clean ups, health fairs, parades,
youth events, concerts and more-- all designed to transform
neighborhoods.
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