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Next City: Buying a Share of Detroit’s Revitalization

Andrew Colom and David Alade believe that longtime Detroiters should profit from the revitalization of their city. And they don’t mean that as a metaphor. These two men are old friends who moved to Detroit in 2015 to launch Century Partners, an unusually holistic housing development company. Colom came from Mississippi, where he pursued writing and…

Financial Times: Hope for a new city amid Detroit’s blight

David Alade and Andrew Colom moved to Detroit from their respective homes of New York and Mississippi this year to take a risk on the city’s uncertain future. They buy, renovate and rent out houses in a historic neighbourhood close to the site of the 1967 race riots, and where both Henry Ford and Motown…