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There was a lot happening in Detroit already before Phil Cooley's Corktown. Too often the "Detroit on the rise" narrative overlooks the substantial work that was already being done in Detroit before "hipsters" came to colonize. The very things that make Detroit so appealing now to the much-buzzed-about culture of twenty-something artists and "social entrepreneurs" have been in the works for years, sometimes even decades. Here Model D's Jay Walljasper takes a look at what some of the long-time locals have been doing all along. 

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