Kresge Artist Fellow Joel Peterson is known as a composer and bassist who works in avant-garde idioms. But he is also a community builder who operated the Bohemian National Home in Detroit from 2005-08, a landmark performance space for experimental music. Now Peterson and partner Rebecca Mazzei are close to acquiring a 9,000-square-foot building on Gratiot on the southern edge of Eastern Market. They plan to transform the space into a home for progressive music of all stripes, integrated with a curated gallery, a café and retail shops. All told, it's about a $200,000 development. To make it happen, they have partnered with the nonprofit Eastern Market Corp., which has nested the project within a larger grant proposal pending before a major foundation...[continued]
