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The Detroit 2020 motto is: Unify. Inspire. Act. Every day thousands of people in metro Detroit are living that motto. Many of them are volunteering their time to help improve the lives of children. These are the people we call “Class Acts.” Our Detroit 2020 special profiles just a few of the men and women who are guiding our next… Read more »
Channel 7′s Stephen Clark sat down for an exclusive interview Thursday with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder at the Governor’s Mansion on Mackinac Island. Snyder is on the island for the Mackinac Policy Conference. During the wide-ranging interview, Snyder talked about a number of issues, including his first months on the job, his support of a new bridge to Canada, and… Read more »
You help teach your kids to read. You help them with their math homework. But how much do you work with them on financial literacy? In other words, how money smart are they? There are a number of programs in our area that can help. For instance, Operation Hope’s Banking On Our Future program is designed to make our children… Read more »
Detroit 2020 helped deliver a big surprise Friday to students and teachers from the Paul Robeson/Malcolm X Academy. A devastating fire raced through the school May 9th, and students were moved to the nearby Thurgood Marshall Elementary School on Detroit’s West Side. Detroit 2020 teamed up with Staples, which donated $5,000 worth of school supplies to the students and teachers…. Read more »
A teenager from Bloomfield Hills who created a video about her dream for Detroit, talked with Detroit 2020. Emily Potter traveled around the city with three friends and produced a video on the dream, as part of a project for an American Literature class at Seaholm High School. Click here to see the interview with Emily from Action News At… Read more »
There are about 320 parks in the City of Detroit. Some are well tended. Many are not. Detroit 2020 wants to help improve the parks that have become neighborhood eyesores because we know how important these green spaces can be to a neighborhood. It’s a project we can take on together. Edwin Hackett Playground near Avon and W. Outer Drive in northwest Detroit… Read more »
High-speed rail is closer to become a reality in Michigan. The state will be getting about $200 million for a new high-speed rail project. Most of the money will fund improvements to allow trains from Detroit to Chicago to reach speeds of 110 miles per hour. The newly-constructed segments of track between Detroit and Chicago would cut 30 minutes in… Read more »
The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47 percent of adults in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, with staggering rates recorded in some of the suburbs as well: Southfield at 24 percent, Warren at 17 percent and both Inkster and Pontiac at 34 percent illiterate. Bookstock, metro Detroit’s largest used book and media sale, has raised more… Read more »
Dan Gilbert wants to help Detroit become prosperous again. And he’s putting his money where his mouth is. The Chairman of Quicken Loans is moving 2,000 more workers from the suburbs to the heart of downtown Detroit. Gilbert tells Detroit 2020 his company is talking to Apple about bring a retail store to the Chase Tower, which he recently bought. … Read more »
Quicken Loans founder and chairman Dan Gilbert wants to put Detroit back on the map. 1,700 Quicken Loans employees work at the headquarters in downtown Detroit. Another 2,000 will be heading downtown from the suburbs in the coming months. Those workers will be based at the Chase Tower and the Madison Building, which Gilbert recently purchased. Gilbert tells Detroit 2020… Read more »
