Could Historic Brewster Homes community be poised for a comeback?
On this day 80 years ago, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt kicked off the building of the Brewster Homes, America’s first federally funded public housing project for blacks.
Vacant recreation center where Joe Louis trained will get $50M renovations
A developer plans to spend $50 million renovating the Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center.
Signs of hope emerge at last minute for Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center
As threats of demolition loom over the long-abandoned recreation center, the city suddenly is sprucing up the building.
Rec center where Joe Louis learned to box faces final round
The Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center may be demolished as Detroit Mayor Duggan looks for developers for the Brush Park area.
Photos: Morning fog drapes Cass Corridor, Brush Park, Brewster Projects
We took a stroll as fog blanketed Detroit this morning.
Mayor Bing mum on stalled Brewster projects demo
By now, crews were to begin demolishing the red-brick towers and row houses.
Brewster Recreation Center where Joe Louis got his start to be preserved
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.
Photo tour: Abandoned Brewster projects like a mini-city of decaying red bricks
Rows of burned out townhouses and high-rise apartments are decaying, windowless and tagged with graffiti. Broken furniture, garbage and dead trees are strewn across the 30-acre ruins near downtown.
Massive, crumbling Brewster projects to be demolished but no plans for future site
The nation’s first federally funded public housing project for black people is coming down on Detroit’s east-side, removing a behemoth eyesore looming over I-75, Mayor Dave Bing announced today.