Forty years ago, 7122 Tuxedo Street’s top-floor flat  was the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson. In 2012, he returned to find it like thousands of other blighted and abandoned homes in Detroit.

With the help of his former classmates from University of Detroit Jesuit High School and through a partnership with the former Marygrove College, Henderson sought to affect change by renovating the house at 7122 Tuxedo and transforming the space into a functioning residence and community center. 

One house. One block. One neighborhood. This humble and ambitious idea marked The Tuxedo Project’s beginning.

The Tuxedo Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to revitalize one of Detroit's most isolated neighborhoods by increasing access to resources centered on five anchors of community: the Arts, education, food sustainability, housing security, and economic opportunity.