New Partners
Jews and blacks forge a bond to revitalize Detroit.
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A
fter nearly two years of
"I think the whole concept of
talking about it, a group revitalizing Detroit and the Jew-
of Jewish business and ish community's involvement of-
community leaders are fers a tremendous opportunity
putting their money and exper- and challenge," Mrs. Brownstein
tise to work for Detroit.
said. "The Jewish community
By doing so, the group hopes grew up in Detroit."
to spur redevelopment of De-
In another effort to reach out
troit's inner-city neighborhoods. and touch the lives of Detroit's
They are calling their
mission the Entrepreneur-
ial Development Project, a
business partnership be-
tween Jewish and African-
American business owners.
• The notion grew out of
the Detroit Initiative Task
Force, a 25-member group
set up in 1995 by the Jew-
ish Federation of Metro-
politan Detroit and the
Jewish Community Coun-
cil. The task force's job was
to figure out ways for Jews
to help breathe new life
into Detroit.
"The one area that we
consistently heard about
was to help grow Detroit's
small businesses and
share whatever expertise
within the Jewish com-
munity to do that," said
David Gad-Harf, execu-
tive director of the JC- Jeanett e
inner-city residents, the
Brownst ein:
Council.
task force got the Jew-
Exactly how to forge Helping to
ish Federation to con-
those business ties has yet revitaliz e the city. tribute $50,000 toward
to be decided by a new
overhauling four Detroit
eight-member committee of recreation centers, two of which
African-Americans and Jews, are former Jewish community
slated to get together for the first centers.
time later this month.
Funds are being matched by
"We wanted to do something several groups to begin work on
that was realistic, that would the Considine Recreation Center
make a difference on a very per- near Northern High School on
sonal level," said Zina Kramer, Woodward Avenue. The North-
co-chair of the development pro- west Activities Center, the for-
ject.
mer JCC at Meyers and Curtis,
What they did was form an al- is among the other three build-
liance with the Booker T. Wash- ings slated for renovation.
ington Business Association, a
"It is my hope that the Jew-
500-member strong league of mi- ish community over time can be-
nority business owners.
come a significant player in the
They also hired Jeanette city of Detroit," said task force
Brownstein, formerly of the chair Elaine Driker. 'We tradi-
American Jewish Congress, to tionally in this community have
help the group carry out its some very strong ties to the city
dream of a prosperous Detroit. and to the black community and
Mrs. Brownstein went to work I think it is something we can
three weeks ago.
rekindle." El
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