In collaboration with Oakland-based Designing Justice Designing Spaces and Detroit-based City Shares, Biosis supported concept development to activate a vacant lot at the corner of Grand River @ 14th. The vacant lot activation sets the stage for the community-driven development led by DJDS, located in Detroit at West Grand River Avenue and 14th Street. At its center is the Love Building, a nonprofit hub that will also contain low-cost studio space, gallery space, health and wellness tenants, and a food hub. During the community engagement process for the adaptive reuse of the Love Building, which was led by DJDS, participants surfaced a variety of infrastructure that is needed in the area in order to support formerly incarcerated people as well as the organizations that serve the community. To meet those community needs, DJDS identified eight parcels adjacent to the Love Building to purchase and transform into the Grand River @ 14th campus. 

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