Monday news roundup

• The Free Press reports on Open City, a new networking group for entrepreneurs looking to start and grow small businesses in the city.

• According to Crain's Detroit, The Skillman Foundation is attracting millions in matching dollars for its effort "to foster healthy, safe and supportive environments for children and their families" in six Detroit neighborhoods.

• Also in Crain's, a dry article on the Downtown housing market with an important point: "People can’t sell their suburban homes, so they don’t have proceeds to use for buying a Detroit condo; and the lending market makes it hard to take on more debt." The national housing / credit crisis may prevent further housing construction Downtown.

• Finally, a Detroit News piece on a new task force to bring grocery stores to the city. The task force is needed: with the closing of Farmer Jack's two Detroit locations, the city is without a single national grocer within its limits.