East Warren Development Corporation broke ground last month on a new 10,000 sq. ft. public market that will house retail stores, a small grocery story, community space, a farmers’ market, and the offices of EWDC.

Our neighborhood is one of the first to have that opportunity - on Thursday, July 18 at 5:00 p.m. at the East Warren Farmers Market, 16835 E. Warren.

Morningside Community Organization and East English Village Neighborhood Association are co-hosting our second annual Summer Sizzler on Saturday, July 13 from 1-4 p.m. at Three Mile- Munich Park.

I found Bernadette Holloway engaged in one of her favorite pastimes recently – tending to her beautifully landscaped front yard on Courville St. She and her husband Ronald moved here 26 years ago from the west side.

One of the things the newly-formed Blight Brigade can do to combat blight in our community is to shine a light on some of the worst actors causing blight. Blake Mikus, an investor from Grosse Pointe, certainly deserves the dishonor of being our first inductee into our Hall of Shame.

A Moroccan restaurant, Saffron DaTwah, recipient of the Food Network’s “Chopped” award and two-time finalist for the prestigious James Beard Award, will open a second location in early 2025 at 16620 E. Warren.

Blight refers to visible eyesores like illegal dumping, trash containers left at curbside 24/7, cars parked on lawns, abandoned vehicles, rodent infestations, and derelict properties. The Morningside Blight Brigade was formed to find solutions to persistent neighborhood blight.

Funding came from an almost $1 million donation from BCBS of Michigan through the Strategic Neighborhood Fund, and an additional $600,000 came from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).