Dbusiness reporter Macaela Mackenzie talks with TechTown General Manager Leslie Smith and other staff about how TechTown's aggressive entrepreneurial initiatives are changing Detroit's economic landscape.

Take a behind-scenes look at the making of TechTown's prized "American Beauty" mural. The video features interviews with artists Halima Cassells, Jide AJe and Senghor Reid, among the seven artists from the Detroit Mural Factory who worked with 31 Detroit children ages 6 to 19, to turn a faded architectural gem into a community focal point .

You may have read of the successes of the technology area known as the Medicon Valley between Denmark and Sweden. Well, we have our own such technology valley.Between Detroit and Windsor-Essex alone, we have clusters in life science, clean tech, digital media, blue tech and advanced manufacturing,