WND works collaboratively with residents to create inclusive and fun activities that meet community needs. We believe activating our neighborhood parks and green spaces fosters a sense belonging for our neighbors. We have focused our parks and open spaces work on the following:

  • Planning and overseeing safe summer programs in Scripps Park, including sports/recreation classes, kids’ reading programs, and more!

  • Creating opportunities for resident engagement in Bryant-Vermont Park in coordination with Detroit Bird Alliance

  • Neighborhood vacant lot, street, and/or alley cleanups

  • Neighborhood/home tours and celebration events

2024 Beautification

The 2024 MOTOR CITY MAKEOVER in Woodbridge was a smash! Neighbors cleaned the freeway service drive, Scripps Park, vacant lots, weeded, cleared sidewalks, and planted flowers and veggies at senior centers and community gardens. .If you are interested in more activities like this, click here to fill out the 2024 Woodbridge Volunteer Interest form. The Woodbridge Street Team and community gardens can use more volunteers!

Thank you, Pie Sci Pizza!

Flowering shrub giveaway May 18

HUGE THANKS to Pie Sci Pizza owners Jim and Jamie Geary who donated dozens of large flowering shrubs and trees to Woodbridge residents this Spring, the second year running! Look for colorful azalea, roses, rhododendron, hydrangea, dogwood, redbud, and lilac trees popping up in flowerbeds and front yards next spring and for many springs to come!

Woodbridge Public Spaces

Scripps Park

This gorgeous city park is at the corner of Trumbull and Grand River in Woodbridge. The beautiful Scripps Park houses a children’s playground, lush perennial beds, a stone shaded reading circle, rose garden and a massive climbing tree known to all who’ve been through the park’s historic brick and cast iron fencing. There are picnic tables, benches, charcoal grills, historic lamp posts, a community bulletin board, and even a bicycle pump and tune-up station. The large reinforced green space has welcomed festivals, community concerts and movie nights with views from a sloping hill.

Bryant-Vermont Park

WND is supporting Detroit Audubon who adopted this city “pocket park” at the corner of Bryant and Vermont— west of Rosa Parks in Woodbridge— to create an "intentional meadow" and bird habitat. WND will continue to work with Detroit Audubon to plan programming that highlights this beautiful sanctuary.

To learn more about Detroit Audubon and Detroit Bird City visit their site here, and get involved!

The park restoration in the beginning phase of meadow blooming, photo provided curtesy of Detroit Bird City.

Beautification to us is about community and most importantly community building – For anyone looking to start beautifying your neighborhood? Here are some things we’d say you have to keep in mind 🌺