Toolkit: Build a news app to track local real estate development

This is a blank, open-source template site you can customize to build a real estate development tracker for your city. It is designed for small local news publishers who want to bootstrap a news app, but anyone is welcome to try it out. Read the guide to learn how and get started. All pages other than the guide are blank, or use sample data or text.

This site was built by Jimmy McBroom and Kate Abbey-Lambertz as part of her Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship through Detour Detroit. It is based on their work building the Detroit Development Tracker, now maintained by Outlier Media.

When you build your site, you will be able to explore development projects on the map, see a list of all projects and let users suggest developments to add to the tracker by submitting a tip.