The 4th Annual Detroit Design Festival is taking place this week in the city with over 60 events.
Sam Moschelli is the sponsorship director at the Detroit chapter of the American Institute of Architects – the group putting on an event this Thursday evening at Eastern Market. Moschelli says he believes there are opportunities for both creating new and revitalizing old.
"The golden age of Detroit was in the 1920s and 1930s. We were known as the 'Paris of the Midwest.' People used to come here to study architecture and to understand the buildings of the era. That building stock is some of our most important resources that we have in the region," says Moschelli.
Detroit by Design event producer Rich Rice says the opportunity and energy that the city offers for artists are catching lots of attention internationally.
"People talk about the arts movements. The older creatives say back in the 1980s in New York .... [Detroit] feels a lot like what was going on there," says Rice
*Listen to our conversation with Sam Moschelli and Rich Rice above.
