Billionaire Dan Gilbert and fellow investors have struck a deal with Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration to buy and redevelop a large swath of historic Brush Park near downtown.
Brewster-Douglass is considered the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people when it was built in the 1930s.
The Brewsters are the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.
The project is the centerpiece of Bing’s plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned buildings in four years.
The former red-brick community was the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.
The recreation center, which closed in the 2000s, became a source of hope and pride for children and teenagers at a time when the growing African American population was confined to segregated slums.