WND works collaboratively with residents to create inclusive and fun activities that meet community needs. We believe activating our neighborhood parks and green spaces fosters a sense belonging for our neighbors. We have focused our parks and open spaces work on the following:

  • Planning and overseeing safe summer programs in Scripps Park, including sports/recreation classes, kids’ reading programs, and more!

  • Creating opportunities for resident engagement in Bryant-Vermont Park in coordination with Detroit Audubon

  • Neighborhood vacant lot, street, and/or alley cleanups

  • Neighborhood/home tours and celebration events

Spring 2024 Beautification

The 2024 Motor City Makeover in Woodbridge is scheduled for Saturday, May 18 from 9am to noon. Meet in Scripps Park, corner of Trumbull and Grand River, for a cleanup assignment and to collect tools, contractor bags, gloves, and snacks. Sign up with this form.

Back by popular demand May 18, 2024…

Flowering Plant Giveaway!

We will be offering FREE flowering plants, bushes, and small trees to be planted in Woodbridge front yards during Motor City Makeover! To get on the list to request a flowering plant for your yard, send us an email or call (313) 462-9066. Big thank you to sponsors Pie Sci Pizza and Woodbridge District Detroit!

Woodbridge Public Spaces

Scripps Park

This gorgeous city park is at the corner of Trumbull and Grand River in Woodbridge. The beautiful Scripps Park houses a children’s playground, lush perennial beds, a stone shaded reading circle, rose garden and a massive climbing tree known to all who’ve been through the park’s historic brick and cast iron fencing. There are picnic tables, benches, charcoal grills, historic lamp posts, a community bulletin board, and even a bicycle pump and tune-up station. The large reinforced green space has welcomed festivals, community concerts and movie nights with views from a sloping hill.

 

Bryant-Vermont Park

WND is supporting Detroit Audubon who adopted this city “pocket park” at the corner of Bryant and Vermont— west of Rosa Parks in Woodbridge— to create an "intentional meadow" and bird habitat. WND will continue to work with Detroit Audubon to plan programming that highlights this beautiful sanctuary.

To learn more about Detroit Audubon and Detroit Bird City visit their site here, and get involved!

The park restoration in the beginning phase of meadow blooming, photo provided curtesy of Detroit Bird City.

Beautification to us is about community and most importantly community building – For anyone looking to start beautifying your neighborhood? Here are some things we’d say you have to keep in mind 🌺