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Concept
The Detroit Neighborhood HomeBase is a community center
created through the support The Kresge Foundation, the University of Detroit Mercy,
the city of Detroit and other organizations. It is anchored by the offices of the Live6
Alliance and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), a unit of the University's School of Architecture and Community Development. The building also offers flexible meeting
space for local organizations as well as
coworking desk space for entrepreneurs and nonprofits.
The Live6 Alliance
The Live6 Alliance was co-founded as a nonprofit economic development organization
by University of Detroit Mercy President Antoine M. Garibaldi
and The Kresge Foundation in August 2015. It defines its mission as:
To enhance the quality of life and economic
opportunity in Northwest Detroit. Working as a convener
and implementer of programs in support of small businesses,
real estate and building improvements, and placemaking,
Live6 provides community leadership for the vision of
revitalized, sustainable commercial corridors and
surrounding neighborhoods.
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Detroit Neighborhood HomeBase Interior
Photo © Gant Studio, LLC. Author: Bree Gant.
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Although the scope of this organization
is quite wide and thus beyond our scope, we are concentrating
on some of its specific projects which are related to our objectives. The Live6 name comes from its support for six ojectives:
small businesses,
neighborhood safety,
community engagement, placemaking,
residential stabilization, and real estate development.
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Live6 Alliance is a local outreach partner for Motor City Re-Store,
a frontage improvement program. Occupied commercial buildings are eligible to apply
for competitive grants that will pay for 50-75% of costs for exterior improvement.
Live6 Alliance is also a local outreach partner for Motor City Match, a business
competition that provides $500,000 in grants, loan and a host of technical assistance.
Motor City Match provides free business planning, site selection support, architectural
assistance and grants and loans.
Detroit Neighborhood Arts Project
The Detroit Neighborhood Arts Project will create a
destination for the arts and
creative entrepreneurship
that celebrates the identity and assets of the
neighborhood and advances the mission of creating
a cultural corridor. It will use the arts to reuse
vacant storefronts, alley ways, empty lots and newly
created public spaces in the Live6 Alliance service area.
It provides and opportunity for individuals to practice their artistic
craft in a community environment. Live6
maintains an Artist Registry for this purpose.
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
The Detroit Collaborative Design Center has an office in the Neighborhood HomeBase to
facillitate its intereaction with other agencies and groups, but some of its activities
are based at the nearby main campus of the
University of Detroit Mercy.
The center is an applied teaching and research component of the University's
School of Architecture and Community Development.
The center defines its mission as follows:
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Photo ©
Live6 Alliance
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The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) is a multidisciplinary,
nonprofit design center based in the University of Detroit Mercy’s
School of Architecture and Community Development. DCDC exists
to bring high-quality and community-engaged design to all neighborhoods in Detroit.
We do this by engaging, educating and promoting equity in design processes and outcomes.
University of Detroit Mercy is a private university founded by the Jesuit Catholic religious order in 1877.
In 1993, the University School of Architecture Dean Stephen Vogel introduced
the idea of a design center housed within an academic context. Father Terrence Curry SJ,
an architect and full-time faculty member, launched a Neighborhood Design Studio
in which students learned the practice of community design by working with neighborhood leaders.
The studio evolved into the current full-service architectural design center, with emphasis
on being "collaborative" with
community leadership.
In addition to its continuous involvement with the Live6 Alliance, the center has provided design services and consulting on a number of projects, including parks, streetscape improvements, housing plans and community centers.
Fully accredited undergraduate and graduate
degrees are available at the nearby University campus.
In addition, the center offers a high school internship program so as to
mentor Detroit high schoolers interested in design and provide aspiring designers
their first job in the field.
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University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and Community Development
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Sources:
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
Kresge Corporation: Neighborhood Homebase
Live6 Alliance
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