Now a 40-year-old former NBA superstar power forward, Derrick Coleman has purchased land on Linwood between Clairmount and Taylor and hopes to acquire more to Gladstone. He is building a pizza shop, cellular phone store and upscale barber shop to accompany the ultra hip Snyx Sneaker Studio built in a strip mall this year dubbed Coleman's Corner. Next year he has plans for a farmer's market, laundromat and dry cleaner across from the strip mall. "People here have to go outside the city to spend their money," Coleman said. "Hopefully in two or three years we won't have to go across Eight Mile to get the things we need." As Coleman adds a new business, he hires people from the neighborhood, which he has never left, despite making millions of dollars playing professional basketball.
-- Detroit News
Ex-NBA star Coleman assists city rebirth
12-27-2007, 04:31 PM
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