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DFO313 Launches ‘Real Talk’ Series to Open the Door for Detroit’s Black and Brown Contractors

The four-part fireside chat series kicked off with developer Richard Hosey breaking down the financial barriers that keep local firms locked out of Detroit’s building boom.

Michael D. Gutierrez by Michael D. Gutierrez
March 5, 2026
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Richard Hosey sat in front of a room of nearly 45 contractors and developers at La Joya Gardens on West Vernor last Thursday and put words to what most of them already knew. The construction industry was built to exploit anyone without money. For Black and Brown contractors, he said, the math is even worse. “This business was rigged to exploit under-capitalized white males. We’re just bonuses.”

That kind of candor is what Tanya Saldivar-Ali and her husband Luis Ali built their “Real Talk” series to produce. Saldivar-Ali, who moderated the panel, co-founded AGI Construction with her husband in 2008. They launched DFO313, the workforce development arm of AGI, two years ago after nearly two decades of working as minority contractors in an industry she described as “very white male dominated.”

Hosey and his partner Greg Jackson are turning Fisher Body Plant 21 into 433 apartments with more than 20 percent affordable units and 38,000 square feet of commercial space. The development costs are estimated at between $140 and $155 million, making it the largest Black-led construction project in Michigan history.

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La Joya Gardens, where the first installment of the series was hosted, is the first new ground-up residential development Southwest Detroit has seen in more than 20 years. 

The “Real Talk” series grew out of roundtable conversations DFO313 started holding with contractors at their Hubbard Richard headquarters, the Design-Build Green Hub, to talk through barriers that Saldivar-Ali says amounted to everything going wrong that nobody could figure out alone.

“The idea around Detroit Future Ops (DFO) is to really build out a trusted network of contractors and to centralize resources and programming,” Saldivar-Ali said during the panel. “When people started engaging with us, they were just like, ‘Hey, can we talk about this legal situation?’ And it’s not that we had the answer. It was just, ‘Oh yeah, been there, done that. You should go talk to so and so.’”

Hosey’s session was the first of four scheduled programs in the first part of this year. Each takes on construction and development through a different lens. March 26 turns to affordable housing, April 16 to operations, and May 21 to sustainability. Dates and topics are still tentative, and DFO313 is fundraising to extend the initial programs into the fall months.

Ali, an electrician by trade and current board chair of the Southwest Detroit Business Association (SDBA), said the actual construction accounts for about 20 percent of running a contracting business. The rest is finance, process, and business management.

“Most people can do the work, but it’s not the work,” Ali said in a separate interview. “Partnership is the new leadership. There’s nothing wrong with sharing to make other people better.”

Aaron Marks is one of those people. He’s been an electrician for 29 years and has worked for other contractors his entire career. He showed up looking for mentorship as a way to avoid the pitfalls he knows are out there. What feels most confusing to him right now is “making sure everything comes in on time and on budget.”

That’s exactly what Hosey spent the evening breaking down. During the panel, Hosey walked through a single line item to show the room what keeps local contractors out of projects like his. He mentioned the ductless mini-split system for Fisher 21 – just the end units and condensers – cost $1.6 million. Under the traditional model, a contractor would need to buy all that equipment upfront, warehouse it, and wait to get paid back over the course of a year.

“If I came to the contractor and said, I just need you to go buy $1.6 million worth of these things and then show up,” Hosey told the room, “that pushes a lot of people out.”

So he changed the deal. On Fisher 21, Hosey carries the materials cost himself. He buys equipment, puts tools on site, and pays contractors faster than the standard draw schedule.

He recalled pitching the idea to his general contractor years earlier. “What if I carry the job?” he asked. The answer to that changed everything.

“Then we don’t need any of these people,” the GC told him. “We just need the talent.”

Hosey also went after one of the most common excuses for low minority participation on Detroit job sites. He described a pamphlet from a local development organization that blamed low Black employment on illiteracy, drug use, and conviction rates. 

Even accepting those inflated numbers, he said, you still have tens of thousands of qualified adults in the city.

The real barrier is money, Hosey argued. Excluding Black and Brown contractors shrinks the available labor pool and drives up pricing for everyone. “You got too many deals chasing too few white contractors, and that makes it where they are jacking up their pricing,” he shared.

Saldivar-Ali said contractors are almost always the last ones brought into a project, long after architects, engineers, and financing structures are locked in place. At that point, the contractor “doesn’t even understand what happened pre-deal,” she said. “They never get to see the finance, what looks good on paper, what actually makes a deal work or not.”

Terrence M. Hicks, a recruitment coordinator for The District Detroit, works under an executive order requiring 51 percent Detroit resident participation in its construction projects. He said most people never even hear about the opportunities, so he takes hiring information directly to community organizations, block clubs, and faith-based groups. Training only matters, he said, if there’s a job at the end of it.

Another attendee, Tyrez Treadways owns several homes in the city and is looking to develop more, but said he keeps running into the same wall. Every time he finds a property, a corporation already owns it. “If 80, 90 percent of everything is closed off, it’s like you kind of lose interest in trying to invest within Detroit,” Treadways said. “And start thinking about investing somewhere else.”

That impulse is what DFO313 is trying to counter. DFO313 surveys attendees after each session and builds future programming from their responses. The organization’s new website, www.dfo313.org, lists upcoming events.

“Let’s go deeper than networking events,” Ali said. “Let’s talk about some really detailed things that are affecting us today. And then let’s share, and then let’s come up with some solutions.”

DFO313 lanza la serie “Real Talk” para abrir puertas a contratistas afroamericanos y latinos en Detroit

La serie de cuatro charlas arrancó con el desarrollador Richard Hosey desglosando las barreras financieras que mantienen a empresas locales fuera del auge de la construcción en la ciudad

Richard Hosey se sentó frente a casi 45 contratistas y desarrolladores en La Joya Gardens, sobre West Vernor, el jueves pasado, y puso en palabras lo que muchos ya sabían. La industria de la construcción fue diseñada para explotar a quienes no tienen capital. Para los contratistas afroamericanos y latinos, dijo, la ecuación es todavía más dura. “Este negocio fue manipulado para explotar a hombres blancos con poco capital. Nosotros somos el bono extra”.

Ese nivel de franqueza es justo lo que Tanya Saldivar-Ali y su esposo, Luis Ali, buscaban generar con su serie “Real Talk”. Saldivar-Ali, quien moderó el panel, cofundó AGI Construction con su esposo en 2008. Hace dos años lanzaron DFO313, el brazo de desarrollo laboral de AGI, después de casi dos décadas trabajando como contratistas minoritarios en una industria que ella describió como “dominada en gran parte por hombres blancos”.

Hosey y su socio Greg Jackson están transformando Fisher Body Plant 21 en 433 apartamentos, con más del 20 por ciento de unidades accesibles y 38,000 pies cuadrados de espacio comercial. El costo del desarrollo se estima entre 140 y 155 millones de dólares, lo que lo convierte en el proyecto de construcción liderado por afroamericanos más grande en la historia de Michigan.

La Joya Gardens, donde se llevó a cabo la primera sesión de la serie, es el primer desarrollo residencial nuevo construido desde cero que ha visto Southwest Detroit en más de 20 años.

La serie “Real Talk” surgió de conversaciones tipo mesa redonda que DFO313 comenzó a organizar con contratistas en su sede de Hubbard Richard, el Design-Build Green Hub, para hablar sobre obstáculos que, según Saldivar-Ali, eran problemas que todos enfrentaban pero que nadie podía resolver por sí solo.

“La idea detrás de Detroit Future Ops (DFO) es realmente construir una red confiable de contratistas y centralizar recursos y programas”, dijo Saldivar-Ali durante el panel. “Cuando la gente empezó a acercarse, decían: ‘Oigan, ¿podemos hablar de esta situación legal?’ Y no es que tuviéramos la respuesta. Era más bien: ‘Sí, ya pasamos por eso. Deberías hablar con tal persona’”.

La sesión de Hosey fue la primera de cuatro programas programados para la primera parte del año. Cada uno aborda la construcción y el desarrollo desde un ángulo distinto. El 26 de marzo se enfocará en vivienda accesible, el 16 de abril en operaciones y el 21 de mayo en sostenibilidad. Las fechas y los temas aún pueden cambiar, y DFO313 está recaudando fondos para extender los programas iniciales hasta el otoño.

Ali, electricista de oficio y actual presidente de la junta de Southwest Detroit Business Association (SDBA), dijo que la construcción en sí representa alrededor del 20 por ciento de lo que implica manejar una empresa contratista. El resto es finanzas, procesos y administración.

“La mayoría puede hacer el trabajo, pero no se trata solo del trabajo”, dijo Ali en una entrevista aparte. “La colaboración es el nuevo liderazgo. No tiene nada de malo compartir para que otros crezcan”.

Aaron Marks es uno de ellos. Ha sido electricista por 29 años y ha trabajado para otros contratistas toda su carrera. Asistió buscando mentoría para evitar los tropiezos que sabe que existen. Lo que más le preocupa ahora es “asegurarse de que todo se entregue a tiempo y dentro del presupuesto”.

Eso fue precisamente lo que Hosey explicó esa noche. Durante el panel, desglosó una sola partida para mostrar por qué muchos contratistas locales quedan fuera de proyectos como el suyo. Mencionó que el sistema mini-split sin ductos para Fisher 21 —solo las unidades y condensadores— costó 1.6 millones de dólares. Bajo el modelo tradicional, un contratista tendría que comprar todo ese equipo por adelantado, almacenarlo y esperar hasta un año para recuperar el dinero.

“Si yo llegara con un contratista y le dijera: solo necesito que compres 1.6 millones de dólares en este equipo y luego te presentes”, dijo Hosey al público, “eso deja fuera a mucha gente”.

Así que cambió el modelo. En Fisher 21, Hosey asume el costo de los materiales. Compra el equipo, coloca las herramientas en el sitio y paga a los contratistas más rápido de lo que establece el calendario tradicional de pagos.

Recordó cuando presentó esa idea a su contratista general años atrás. “¿Y si yo cargo con el proyecto?”, preguntó. La respuesta lo cambió todo.

“Entonces no necesitamos a toda esa gente”, le dijo el contratista general. “Solo necesitamos el talento”.

Hosey también cuestionó una de las excusas más comunes para la baja participación de minorías en las obras de Detroit. Describió un folleto de una organización local de desarrollo que atribuía el bajo empleo afroamericano a la falta de alfabetización, el consumo de drogas y antecedentes penales.

Aun aceptando esas cifras infladas, dijo, la ciudad cuenta con decenas de miles de adultos calificados.

La verdadera barrera es el dinero, argumentó. Excluir a contratistas afroamericanos y latinos reduce la mano de obra disponible y eleva los precios para todos. “Hay demasiados proyectos persiguiendo a muy pocos contratistas blancos, y eso hace que suban sus precios”, señaló.

Saldivar-Ali agregó que casi siempre los contratistas son los últimos en integrarse a un proyecto, cuando arquitectos, ingenieros y esquemas financieros ya están definidos. En ese punto, el contratista “ni siquiera entiende qué pasó antes del acuerdo”, dijo. “Nunca llegan a ver las finanzas, lo que se ve bien en papel, lo que realmente hace que un proyecto funcione o no”.

Terrence M. Hicks, coordinador de reclutamiento para The District Detroit, trabaja bajo una orden ejecutiva que exige 51 por ciento de participación de residentes de Detroit en sus proyectos de construcción. Dijo que muchas personas ni siquiera se enteran de las oportunidades, por lo que lleva la información directamente a organizaciones comunitarias, block clubs y grupos religiosos. La capacitación, señaló, solo importa si hay un empleo al final.

Otro asistente, Tyrez Treadways, es dueño de varias casas en la ciudad y busca desarrollar más, pero dice que siempre se topa con la misma pared. Cada vez que encuentra una propiedad, ya pertenece a una corporación. “Si el 80 o 90 por ciento de todo está cerrado, como que pierdes el interés de invertir en Detroit”, dijo Treadways. “Y empiezas a pensar en invertir en otro lado”.

Ese impulso es lo que DFO313 busca contrarrestar. La organización encuesta a los asistentes después de cada sesión y diseña su programación futura a partir de sus respuestas. Su nuevo website, www.dfo313.org, publica los próximos eventos.

“Vamos más allá de los eventos de networking”, dijo Ali. “Hablemos de los temas detallados que nos están afectando hoy. Compartamos experiencias y construyamos soluciones juntos”.

 

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Michael D. Gutierrez is the Digital Content Manager for EL CENTRAL Hispanic News. He is a screenwriter and filmmaker with a decade of experience in the television and film industry, contributing to projects including THE HOLDOVERS and LETHAL WEAPON on Fox. He is an active member of the Writers Guild of America-West and its Latino Writers Committee.

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Three young players vie for the soccer ball during intense active play, with spectators and field fencing visible in the background

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Multiple panelists stand in discussion in front of a projection screen reading "THREE WAYS TO TAKE ACTION" at an event space with distinctive yellow-framed windows and decorative skull murals on the walls

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The entrance to Bank of America's Golf With Us event features a large red, white, and blue balloon arch above the event sign, with a white shuttle bus and event staff greeting young participants arriving for the program

Pistons Legend Rip Hamilton and BofA Support Detroit Youth at Belle Isle Golf Clinic

July 30, 2026
Three young players vie for the soccer ball during intense active play, with spectators and field fencing visible in the background

Occupy the Summer and Detroit City FC host a night of street soccer at Clark Park

July 30, 2026

Fantástico Brings Vintage Mexican Cinema Posters to Detroit

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Latino Leaders Gather in Detroit for Statewide ‘No Se Puede, Sin Nosotros’ Convening

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