The Framework Podcast

“The Framework” is a podcast produced by the Planning and Development Department, focusing on Midwest-Tireman Planning as part of the Midwest-Tireman planning process.    

In 1997, a group of former residents of the Midwest - Tireman area, also known as the ‘Old West Side,’ published the book ‘Remembering Detroit’s Old Westside, 1920-1950: A Pictorial History of the Westsiders.’ They recounted stories about the lives and experiences of the Westsiders and highlighted transformative historical events in the area. In essence, the book was a way to honor the lives and memories of the people who helped build the community and archive them in the pages of Detroit’s rich history.    

The podcast is a spiritual successor to that idea. However, its scope is wider than archiving the oral history of the Midwest-Tireman Community. The podcast is another tool in the department to encourage active engagement within the planning process. The goal is not only to speak and build relationships with residents, volunteers, and local entrepreneurs of Midwest-Tireman but to have them further engaged in the planning process and have their input inform the process as a whole. We will view their input through the lens of the Midwest-Tireman Framework elements.  

 These elements of the Framework focus on Housing, Economic Development, Industrial Center Development, Mobility, Parks and Open Space. However, the key to the framework is having the history and culture integral to Detroit woven into the framework'.  

The Midwest-Tireman framework itself is supervised by the Central Region Design Director, Kevin Schronce, with John F. Sivills III as the Project Lead and Rashedul Deepon as the Project Manager. Antoine Bryant is the Director of the Planning and Development Department.