Last Thursday evening, September 24th 2020, nearly 200 Detroiters joined a marathon Detroit City Planning Commission zoom meeting to follow the State Fairgrounds development activity. […]
September 14, 2020 Mikel Oglesby, Executive Director of Transit Detroit Department of Transportation 1301 E. Warren Detroit, MI 48207 RE: Inquiry regarding Federal Transit Administration […]
It’s happening again. Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is expanding in Detroit and has only agreed to commit $8.8 million in “community benefits” for a plant they […]
Over promising to Developers Under performing for Detroiters The State Fairgrounds looks like another deal gone bad In 2018, the State of Michigan sold the […]
In 2016, Detroiters created the nation’s first Community Benefits Ordinance for large development projects that use public funding, our tax dollars. While this current CBO […]
Call for Racial and Economic Justice Principles for Corporations Negotiating Community Benefits Agreement (CBAs) with Residents in the City of Detroit Preamble Detroit is the […]
Quicken/Bedrock, Penske and other corporations accessed nearly $78 Million in public funds and resources slated for public transit on this quasi-public/private real estate project. Now […]
Violence against black bodies shows up in public policy every day in Detroit. Air, Water and Land Pollution Cuts to Basic Services Lack of investment […]
Detroit People’s Platform NEWS – June 3, 2020 We demand Quicken/Bedrock and other Corporates do away with the discredited language and positioning of “diversity and […]