For Your Entertainment: Detroit on TV

Just in case you need an excuse to watch the boob tube tonight. Community 1st Development, a Farmington Hills-based real estate company focused on urban residential redevelopment, neighborhood rehabilitation and affordable “green built” homes, will be showcased at 6 p.m. tonight on Discovery's Planet Green show “Renovation Nation.”

Better than any "Jersey Shore" type TV, that's for sure.

According to the good folks helping to spread the word, "the featured home was selected for the show for being the first green, affordable home available in Detroit and the first dwelling for Community 1st's Alter Commons neighborhood, located in the Jefferson Chalmers area of Detroit's far Eastside. In May 2009, Discovery's Planet Green came to Detroit to document the monumental event for its “Renovation Nation” television series, detailing all the efforts involved with constructing the home from structure to crane-lift construction to meeting green-built standards."

The efforts of Community 1st to revitalize the city of Detroit, and to do so with affordable green-built homes, captured the attention of producers for Discovery's Planet Green “Renovation Nation,” which features unique efforts in green home building renovation or construction projects, early last year. The show featuring several Detroit-based efforts, including the Alter Commons home, will run again 10 a.m. Friday (as well as Tuesday, February 16, at 6 p.m. and Wednesday, February 17, at 10 a.m.)

Community 1st also is developing a neighborhood on Detroit's near east side called Paradise Valley Estates which has four new green homes completed with 16 more to be constructed starting in February. The company entered into a green home rehabilitation joint venture with Fisher Construction Company and Jewish Vocational Services known as Neighborhood Housing Solutions. Neighborhood Housing Solutions was recently chosen by the City of Hamtramck, Wayne County and MSHDA to complete the rehabilitation of homes in the City of Hamtramck.

In addition, Community 1st works with the Vision Group to provide credit repair and restoration to customers to prepare them for the home ownership process.

The home profiled is a 1,404 square-foot, three bedroom, two bathroom ranch with attached two-car garage. The model, called the Ontario, is one of five different floor plans potential homeowners in the neighborhood may choose from, ranging from 1,300 to 2,100 square feet.