There were many coordinating events with this year's second-annual Detroit Design Festival, but Detroit's first Better Block urban renewal project aimed to impact the North End community on a much larger and more long-term scale.
"Started in Dallas in 2010, Better Block aims to transform vacant or poorly utilized spaces in U.S. cities into temporary indoor/outdoor community centers filled with art, bike lanes, park space, music, food and drink.
'Detroit's first venture will be at East Grand Boulevard and St. Antoine, an area of empty warehouses and art galleries. It's like a block party, organizers said, but it's also a vision of what that block could look like on a more permanent basis."
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