News

• Mayor announced crime reduction program during last night’s State of the City address
• City seeks community partners to reduce homicides and shootings through community violence intervention in the hardest-hit areas
• Community groups

• Address on March 7 to highlight transformation of long-vacant train station as the anchor of Michigan Central, a hub for advancing new mobility technologies and opportunity
• Mayor’s previous two State of the City addresses have been held at GM

• Mayor Mike Duggan delivers his Proposed FY2024 Budget and FY2024-2027 Four-Year Financial Plan to the Detroit City Council

• As Group Executive for Services and Infrastructure, Dick has led city beautification efforts, including transformation of city parks and rec centers, thousands of alley clean-ups, commercial corridor blight removal efforts, murals and more
• Replaces Hakim Be

As we roll into the spring season and prepare for the third Community Engagement meeting, we are providing an update on the key takeaways and observations from Community Open House 2, held on January 31st, 2023. In our second open house, 51 people participated in the event.

• Artists encouraged to submit their murals for the map from anywhere in the city
• Detroit ACE expands ways for artists and mural hunters to submit photos and bios

The Detroit Mural Map is expanding to include murals in indoor publ

• Soul on Ice is a black-owned, upscale establishment in the heart of Detroit’s Midwest neighborhood
• Founders Herb and Danielle Sanders opened Soul on Ice to welcome luxury in an area that has embraced change
• Motor City Match has awa

• DDOT now using ticketing app Token Transit
• New app will provide DART regional passes for both DDOT and SMART
• 7-day and 31-day passes now available only through Token Transit

• Amanda Elias named Deputy Group Executive for Neighborhood Economic Development 
• Elias will coordinate with city departments to streamline processes for neighborhood-level investment  
• Part of Mayor’s overall neighborhood commercial corridor revitalization strate