About the LOVE Building

Last year, we bought a building as part of a long-term vision to support our work and network. We'll be sharing our plans all along the way.

At the intersection of Grand River Ave. and 15th Street in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood, there is a four-story brick building covered in murals. The most prominent one, spanning the top half of the front facade, is of four hands shaping the letters L-O-V-E. For nearly 20 years, this building was a home for artists and small businesses. Through low-cost studio space, gallery space, and community, it nurtured a kind of creative love, the impact of which is visible along Grand River, and will be felt for many more decades.

In 2020, Allied Media Projects, the Detroit Community Technology Project, Detroit Narrative Agency, Detroit Justice Center, Detroit Disability Power, and Paradise Natural Foods will make the LOVE Building our new home.

By combining forces under one roof, our goal is to build upon this building’s legacy and activate love’s potential as a force for justice, transformation, healing, and liberation. This kind of love runs deep in Detroit. It circulates in the work of activists, artists, and everyday people. It feeds our most audacious visions for a beloved community in which no one is disposable and every person can live with dignity and power.

Read more about our vision, here.