DATE: 4-5:30 p.m. Oct. 21

EVENT: The University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy will host a panel discussion that looks at the different approaches to urban food retail in Detroit’s economic development and revitalization.

Some examples include a program that touches on the conventional grocery industry; a program to develop grocery-sector entrepreneurs; a new model for community grocery stores; and alternative formats/vehicles for urban residents to get fresh food.

The initiatives and panelists are:

? Fresh Food Access Initiative: Olga Savic Stella, vice president of business development at the Detroit Economic Growth Corp.

? Detroit Grocery Project: Margaret Garry, director of special projects at the Michigan Department of Human Services.

? Detroit Community Grocery Store Coalition: Brad Wilson, community development director of United Food and Commercial Workers Statewide Community Development.

? Green Ribbon Collaborative and MI Food Movers: Randall Fogelman, vice president of Development for Eastern Market Corp.

Larissa Larsen, U-M assistant professor of urban planning, will moderate the panel. The event is free and open to the public.

PLACE: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy’s Betty Ford Auditorium, 1110 Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, 735 South State St. Map

SPONSORS: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy and Ford School of Public Policy

INFORMATION: www.closup.umich.edu or (734) 647-4091