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Jeanette Pierce lays out collaboration and placemaking lessons from Detroit's revival
Summary
At a Midwestern Higher Education Compact event in Detroit, Jeanette Pierce, founder and president of the City Institute, traced the city's history and outlined concrete lessons in regional collaboration, placemaking and talent retention, citing projects such as Michigan Central and the Joe Louis Greenway.
Jeanette Pierce, founder and president of the City Institute, told attendees at a Midwestern Higher Education Compact event in Detroit that the city's recent recovery shows how collaboration, targeted public-space investments and place-based storytelling can support economic revival. "Growth comes with collaboration," Pierce said during a presentation that traced Detroit's history from Indigenous habitation and early European settlement through the rise of the auto industry and the city's later bankruptcy.
Pierce highlighted several concrete projects and figures she said have helped drive momentum: extensive downtown renovations…
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