By Monica Mercer
Special to the Times Free Press
DETROIT — CreateHere co-founder Helen Davis Johnson’s mother was born in Detroit, but that family connection is not why Chattanooga’s original nonprofit in urban innovation is now tackling the Motor City.
Several CreateHere staffers and about 40 Detroiters mingled Saturday in an empty restaurant on the fringe of downtown.
Visible through its large windows was the target of a “civic intervention” the group staged: Michigan Central Station, the main symbol of the city’s decay, and a forlorn strip of ground called Roosevelt Park in front of it.