Detroit (June 12, 2019) – Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) President & CEO Maurice Jones will help kick off the implementation of the Milwaukee Junction District Framework on Thursday, June 13 that is designed to preserve affordability for creative, design and light industrial businesses in the neighborhood adjacent to the rising rents of Midtown and Downtown Detroit.
Goodwill, Vanguard to open $2 million career center in Detroit’s North End neighborhood
December 8th, 2019
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit and Vanguard Community Development Corp. have secured $2 million in funding to renovate a building in the city’s North End neighborhood into a career center offering job readiness, training and placement and financial literacy programs.
Vanguard Community Development Corp.
December 8th, 2019
The comprehensive, holistic community service and development organization works to facilitate, coordinate, and ignite educational, economic, and community growth and investment in the Central Woodward-North End neighborhood of Detroit. This two-year grant funds its operations and builds its organizational capacity.
New coworking space part of Vanguard Community Development’s larger economic plan
December 8th, 2019
Realtor Nusrat Hussain was working at new coworking space Cocoon Detroit on East Grand Boulevard when an architect came in wanting to speak with Steven Harris, owner of Cocoon and Rebound Construction. Harris was running late, so Hussain got to talking to the man, a transplant from New York, as he waited. They ended up discussing gentrification, redevelopment of abandoned houses, and displacem
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