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Midtown Drives Remaking of Detroit
Excerpt from Detroit News
More than 30,000 employees of Henry Ford, Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center are eligible for the "Live Midtown" program, which will offer downpayment assistance and rent subsidies to suburbanites willing to relocate to the D. Along with a new push by Mayor Dave Bing to attract police officers to Detroit's neighborhoods, "Live Midtown" is one piece of the puzzle that's brought in such heavyweights as the Hudson-Weber Foundation and the Kresge Foundation to battle the city's declining population numbers.
It's a piece of a larger program called "15 X 15" that hopes to attract 15,000 young people with a four-year degree or more to repopulate Detroit by 2015 that Gov. Rick Snyder touted in his State of the State address. The two initiatives are among a number of efforts to revitalize Detroit, including bringing light rail up Woodward Avenue, attracting more grocery stores and encouraging business to invest where new residents live.
Find out more about what's happening in Midtown here.
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