[SusDet Announce] Speakers: "Midtown The Next Big Thing" Fri, Dec 1 8AM

[ecadvocate at aol.com]

December's installment of Model D's speaker series will be this Friday, Dec. 1, at the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle and will focus on the boom of development in Midtown. 

Seating is limited, and an RSVP is required. Click here to sign up.

The series is co-sponsored by the DYC, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority and LaSalle Bank.

The free event starts with registration at 8 a.m., the speakers start at 8:30 a.m., and the program will last about an hour. 

Midtown's boom

Anchored by a different big three — major learning institutions, the medical complex and the city's cultural district — Detroit's Midtown has grown into one of the most vibrant, cohesive, walkable neighborhoods in the city.

Bounded by four freeways — the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher and Lodge — the area attracts over 2 million visitors each year, many for events like Noel Night (coming Dec. 2) and the Detroit Festival of the Arts in the summer. 

With growing public and private investment in the area's institutions, infrastructure and housing stock, this neighborhood has seen new restaurants, lofts and most recently a new contemporary art museum.

Speakers will include:

• Sue Mosey: As president of the University Cultural Center Association, a community development organization in Midtown, Mosey has helped bring in more than $400 million in new residential investment— with about 3,000 housing units planned or completed since 2000. The association has developed the Inn on Ferry Street, has plans for a two-mile greenway and has raised millions for streetscaping projects along Woodward Avenue.

• Jon Rosenthal: A project manager for Ram Development, Rosenthal helped create The Ellington, a $35 million urban, mixed-use development at the corner of Mack Avenue and Woodward. The 4.5-acre site includes 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and 55 loft-style condos, as well as a six-story parking garage. It's the home of the city's newest Starbucks, as well as a FedEx Kinkos and LaSalle Bank Branch.

Please Join us at the DYC on Friday, December 1 at 8AM.

Seating is limited, and an RSVP is required. Click here to sign up.

If you have already RSVP'd but did not receive a confirmation, we did receive you registration and no one will be turned away.

See you there.

The Model D Team

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Detroit, MI 48176
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