Edit; There are a few retail programs downtown. Motor City Match grant and funding program, the Detroit Legacy Business Fund for established businesses (30+ years), and the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. Other programs like Shop Small Detroit provide marketing resources, while programs such as the Green Grocer Program is kind of what it sounds like incentives for grocers offering healthy grocery services.
Ouch man you know how to hit where it hurts, lol. U of M Center for Innovation is now a District Detroit project though 90%+ of the credit goes to Stephen Ross Olympia had the land... Here’s a video from late July elevator cores were at 5 stories and the steel for the 3rd floor was going up. The apartments on Henry St that Chris Illitch wanted demoed are under renovation which is good to see. Not great seeing work at the United Artists Theater pause, would like to know what’s going on there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnD5Tw7gE4
There’s pretty serious talk going on about a hotel at Woodward and I-75 but that’s low hanging fruit not what you expect 10 years on after you give a massive tax break during the most fraught time in the history of the city. Chris just isn’t the same caliber man as his father it’s sad to see the Illitch legacy fall in the way it has. I would imagine that the hotel project is planned to go hand in hand with the I-75 cap project but I’ll believe it when I see it.
On a brighter note the restoration and preservation of St Anne’s Basilica has secured donor funding for its current renovations and future upkeep. It’s not an exaggeration to call St Anne’s the spiritual heart of the city the original St Anne’s was founded alongside the city in 1701.
Pulte foundation ensures historic Detroit church survives another 200 years, lays path for new model
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A $30 million rehabilitation project is getting underway with roof repairs at Ste. Anne, which was designated a minor basilica for its historical significance and pilgrimage by the late Pope Francis in 2020.
Through The Catholic Initiative, a new nonprofit Pulte established, the foundation has also committed to helping the parish raise $20 million for a permanent endowment that would kick in around 2029, providing funding for future capital needs and some operating support for the parish.
It has hired fundraisers from the University of Notre Dame to take donations from around the country and will manage the permanent endowments for the Detroit church and the Catholic churches and school it’s supporting through the initiative in other areas.
The late William Pulte, founder of the homebuilder now operating as PulteGroup and the foundation, quietly gave hundreds of millions of dollars over his life to the Archdiocese of Detroit and Catholic churches and schools in Southeast Michigan, said Kevin Doyle, COO of the Boca Raton, Fla.-based Pulte Family Charitable Foundation and president of The Catholic Initiative. The foundation wanted to carry on that legacy.
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Built in 1886, Ste. Anne is home to the second-oldest continuing parish in the U.S., dating back to 1701, behind another in St. Augustine, Fla., said Monsignor Charles Kosanke, pastor and rector of Ste Anne. It’s located near the revitalized Michigan Central Station and a proposed $198 million development that would bring a 15,000-seat stadium for Detroit City FC soccer club, affordable housing, parking and retail to the area.
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https://www.crainsdetroit.com/nonprofits...pport-historic-church-launches-new-model
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