‘Every neighborhood deserves investment,’ Sheffield says at SOTC

Mayor Sheffield announces new retail director to attract local and national retailers to Detroit.
Sheffield will launch a partnership with Dan Gilbert and Move Detroit Coalition to retain and attract Detroiters to come home.
Mayor Mary Sheffield took to the stage in the Jemele Hill Auditorium at Mumford High School, in the Schulze neighborhood in northwest Detroit, looking to make a tangible statement in her historic first State of the City address, as the city’s first woman mayor — and not just with her words.
Sheffield bypassed the big theaters and event spaces downtown, deliberately choosing a space