Wayne State revives neighborhood, piece by piece

The president of Wayne State University is driving a redevelopment engine all his own. “A lot is happening here,” says M. Roy Wilson, the Harvard-educated eye doctor who arrived in summer 2013 to lead Wayne State. “We’ve been struggling with less state resources. We’ve been able to use our philanthropy to offset some of that.” A new $50 million business school at Woodward and Temple, made possible by a $40 million gift from Mike Ilitch, expands the university’s reach south, burnishes Wayne State’s brand in a transforming downtown, and helps anchor the Ilitches’ 45-block Detroit District development.

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