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While the once great Detroit experienced a downfall like no other city has before, there is no doubt that eventually it will prosper once more. 

The income of a fresh-out-of-college entrepreneur or artist is extremely low. Detroit offers exceedingly low prices on properties otherwise unaffordable for these essential members of the community.  

Urban farming is one of the many entrepreneurial and inventive ideas that focuses less on business and more on making huge changes in the city. 

Above is a link to the projects that the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative are working on. Using urban farming, they hope to provide jobs for Detroit and the surrounding community and fill the thousands of empty lots, (which are both obviously vital to recreating Detroit and its economy), as well as providing healthier food in the urban area that they are located in. 

While many people depended on jobs in the car factories, Detroit truly needed to be rebuilt from the bottom up, with more consumers, citizens, and overall, businesses and programs. 

The city needed to reconstruct its economy and what it used to draw in money. 

Here, CCS provides a list of some of the many programs that their own graduates have initiated in Detroit, along with a list of numerous galleries located in the city, proving that art is a major part of Detroit’s new culture as well as a factor in growth of the economy.

is also a large player in jump starting the economy. The art community in Detroit is growing faster than it ever has before, and graduates from the College for Creative Studies are using their artistic skills and talents to begin their own businesses. 

The New York Times

Wayne State University, Michigan State University, The University of Michigan, Lawrence Technological University, and many more.