Detroit Food Commons is a partnership between the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) and Develop Detroit, and it involves the construction of a new two-story, 31,000-square-foot building located in Detroit’s North End neighborhood.

The first floor of the newly constructed building features the Detroit People’s Food Co-op, a community owned grocery store selling healthy, locally sourced food, and a 50-seat café. The second floor of the building contains a fully licensed kitchen for incubating food enterprises, a community event and banquet space, and offices for DBCFSN.

The 15,000-square-foot, ground-floor grocery store provides healthy, affordable options to approximately 32,000 low-income community residents and 20,000 food desert residents within a 1.5-mile trade area. Prior to being built, the co-op signed up about 1,300 member-owners, underscoring the pent-up demand for high-quality grocers in the neighborhood. Around 80% of the store products are natural and organic and 20% are considered “clean conventional.”