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There are lots of retirement communities that promise to
fulfill your every need, from help with housekeeping, to
meals and transportation. They'll even throw in BINGO
at 6. Ho-hum. And they wonder what you're waiting for.

At THE FOUNTAINS, we believe life is about much more
than fulfilling needs; it's about fulfilling dreams. THE
FOUNTAINS offers community style living for people age
62 and better. We offer national award-winning services
and programs to meet your individual needs and
aspirations.

Come, see how THE FOUNTAINS is raising expectations
of what life can be. While you're here, enter our summer
raffle for a chance to win a free ride in a hot air balloon!

Randall Fogelman, in front of his favorite downtown landmark, the Penobscot Building.

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Farmington Hills, Michigan

A '90s Pioneer

One suburban-bred, Jewish twentysomething lives in
the city of Detroit and loves it.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER

andall Fogelman, 24, loves to tell
people how great the city of De-
troit really is. No, he does not
work for the Chamber of Com-
merce. He's just a nice, Jewish boy from
the suburbs who found that living and
working downtown is no longer taboo.
The summer before he spent a year
studying art history in Italy, Fogelman
had interned at the Detroit Institute of
Arts, his first taste of daily Detroit city
life. He "realized there's a lot more go-
ing on downtown than anyone was
telling me. There was a lot of hope" at
the time, since Dennis Archer was run-
ning for mayor and Coleman Young had
already declined another run.
"I saw a lot of young people, artists
from CCS [Center for Creative Stud-
ies]." So he decided to move downtown.
That was three years ago.
A student at Michigan State Uni-
versity for two years, Fogelman did not
want to return to East Lansing after his
year abroad. He also saw the realm of
possibility that Detroit had to offer.
"There was a new life breathed into
downtown," he recalls.
Add to that the fact that his mother
had moved out of his childhood home,
leaving him no base to return to.
So he found an apartment in the cul-
tural center and transferred to Wayne
State University, where he graduated
August 1995 with a bachelor's in art his-
tory.
The next year, Fogelman took some
time off to work — promoting a down-
town neighborhood for a local business
district.
One reason he lives in Detroit rather

than moving to Chicago, which many
view as a more vibrant city, is that he
sees in Detroit potential for the long-
term that other cities don't have. "I'm
meeting people that at 24 I shouldn't be
meeting."
He's also interested in issues of ur-
ban development and renewal, which
"cities like Chicago don't need."
"Because I care, I want to see things
done right. I want to present the other
side. No one's asking the questions. So
I'm there to ask the questions."
Last fall, Fogelman started on a
graduate school track in urban plan-
ning at Wayne. But he is contemplat-
ing a transfer to the University of
Michigan "to better myself, learn
more"; Michigan's design-oriented pro-
gram looks at how to create a pedes-
trian city. And afterwards, he plans to
move back to the city.
In his application essay to graduate
school at U-M, he wrote: "In the three
years that I have lived in Detroit, I have
gained an understanding of what makes
this city tick. But I am also faced with
questions: Is urban the opposite of rur-
al or suburban? And what place does
architectural history play in urban plan-
ning?"
Looking around the city, Fogelman
will passionately protest — to whomev-
er will listen — plans to destroy old
buildings to make way for stadiums,
casinos and other suburbanite lures
which he thinks will make the city a big
suburb-wannabe.
Why aren't a ton of Jewish twenty-
and thirtysomethings moving down-
town, following in Fogelman's footsteps?

