The Kalamazoo City Commission has put in place the steps needed to assess properties that could become the location for POD housing for those who currently do not have stable housing conditions.
The president of the Milwood Neighborhood Watch Association has died. The Executive Director of the Edison Neighborhood Association will retire this month. Two other core neighborhoods have executive directors who are planning their exits when major projects are finished. How will this transfer of leadership affect Kalamazoo's neighborhoods?
There have been many accomplishments in the Edison Neighborhood over the past 21 years that Tammy Taylor has been Exective Director. But she says it has been the small things she and the association have done to help people that have meant the most to her.
Roosevelt Lee-Fleming learned how to keep expensive sneakers in pristine shape as a teen. Now he's turned that skill into a business of his own. The Drip Sneakers restores shoes for sneaker-heads. It also sells unique women’s apparel.
Workers who have quit their jobs or whose job have quit them talk about why they are not going back. An economist and two other people from Kalamazoo who help entrepreneurs build their businesses give their thoughts on where are all the workers.
An idea that had been rolling around Dan Kay's brain for a couple of years came together at a time when all seemed lost. Now his Perfect Paint Edger is getting national attention from all the right people.
Despite the quarantining and social distancing Kzoo Makers has continued to attract creative builders, engineers, artists, and crafters and has even been a home for growing businesses.
Kalamazoo's Housing Resources Inc. says it wants to develop “A Kzoo POD Community,” of small modular housing pods to safeguard people who have been living outdoors in harsh and often unsafe conditions to be located in a space where residents define how they want to live.
Connecting caregivers and professionals who work with Alzheimer’s patients with those partners like the Alzheimer’s Association, Bronson Healthcare Group and other resources began last fall. That's one of the goals of the new Memory Care Learning Center at the Heritage Community in Kalamazoo.
Residents can look forward to a cluster of new projects that are in the works for the Edison Neighborhood.
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