A new mural in Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers area is helping to share some of that community’s story.

For the first time in 40 years, two historic apartment buildings in Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood have reopened -- and they’re newly renovated.

The Spirit of Detroit is being used to transform the alleys in a few neighborhoods into works of art.

The project’s goal is to provide 25 Detroit homes in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood with solar panel installation, upkeep and education.

With several inches of rain expected to fall across Metro Detroit over the next few days, the Great Lakes Water Authority is warning residents to remain alert and be prepared for potential flooding -- especially after an issue was discovered at a local pump station.

FEMA officials are going door-to-door in Detroit to make sure people can access the federal help they’re entitled to after severe flooding impacted the area.

No matter which street you drive through in Grosse Pointe Park or the Jefferson Chalmers area you will see piles of belongings outside homes.

Residents spent much of Saturday cleaning up what they could from the devastating floods.

It’s coming in the form of a community funded neighborhood grocery store right in the heart of Detroit’s Jefferson and Chalmers neighborhood. Many are excited about the neighborhood grocery store right on Manistique. “This is the upcoming neighborhood grocery. Wright is the owner of the upcoming grocery store. The checkout counter, we’re going to rebuild the checkout counter here,” said Wright.

DETROIT - The nonprofit Jefferson East Inc. and its development arm, Jefferson Development Corp., are asking residents of the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood what they want. More than 100 residents went Tuesday night to a meeting where they were asked for input. The group is aiming to have an East Jefferson corridor master plan done shortly. What we really want is to hear from the residents, Jefferson East Incs Joshua Ellington said. A lot of folks have been here for 20, 30, 40 years and a lot of them want to see the vibrant Main Street corridor they once knew to be here, Jefferson Development Corp, CEO Derric Scott said.

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Its all about surviving and protecting for neighbors in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood. It did stop some of the water, Michael Seger said. Its not stopping, Seger said. Recently the city passed out a Notice of Emergency Order saying that it is going to fix the issue, but with stipulations. I dont see how the city can be blaming the residents and people that live over here for this issue, when we cant control this, Seger said.

The city said Wednesday that its taking steps to stop river and canal water from flooding homes and streets in major areas of the neighborhood with an emergency order. The city will begin preparing and placing thousands of sand bags in vulnerable areas as soon as Thursday. An emergency order issued gives workers the right to access the exterior of privately owned properties to place the sand bags as necessary to prevent water from flowing into neighborhoods. According to the order, residents are not to remove sand bags until authorized by the city. That is a major focus, but its also about reducing the demand on our wet weather pumping and treatment facilities, said DWSD Director Gary Brown.