The themes that are shaping Detroit right now are community, collaboration, opportunity and innovation, and on the Detroit Experience Factory bus tour, you’ll see how those themes are woven throughout the city. The first half of this tour includes an overview of the people, places and neighborhoods that make up Detroit’s core including Downtown, East Riverfront, Midtown, New Center and Eastern Market. You’ll also see distressed neighborhoods surrounding the core, that are developing unique solutions to the challenges they face.
The second half of the tour will take you inside two of Detroit’s most innovative projects, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet the people reinventing Detroit. By day’s end, you’ll have an insider’s perspective of where Detroit has come from and more importantly, where it is going.
- Cass Community Services Green Industries, which provides work for adults who have developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, physical restrictions or who have formerly experienced homelessness, war or prison. The items produced at Green Industries are made up from repurposed or recycled material (including flip flops made from tires) that would otherwise end up in a landfill, the city incinerator or remain part of the garbage and blight on vacant lots in Detroit. Learn more here.
- Eastern Market, a local food district with more than 250 independent vendors and merchants processing, wholesaling and retailing food. This six-block public market has been feeding Detroit since 1891 and is leading the conversation around urban agriculture and food businesses role in economic development. It is also home to over 50 murals and many art galleries and artist spaces including Red Bull House of Art, Salt & Cedar and Division Street Gallery. Learn more here.
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The bus tour is included in the MOVE 2017 registration package, but an RSVP is required and can be found on the registration form.