D BUSINESS | A Lady’s Place: BasBlue Club in Midtown Detroit is a place for women to network and the community to gather.

Tim Keenan

DBusiness

Clubs for women aren’t a new concept in Detroit; the Detroit Association of Women’s Clubs was organized in 1921 with eight clubs. It still exists, but right around the corner is a new women’s club located at 110 Ferry St. in Midtown: BasBlue.

The nonprofit club resides in a newly renovated historic mansion that was once home to the first president of the Michigan Telephone Co. and later served as Your Heritage House children’s museum. The new group caters as much to the local community as it does its members.

Miah Davis, the club’s membership and community manager, says the establishment hopes to attract women from every field of business. “It’s not our goal to be restricted to one tax bracket, income level, or career field,” she says. “We want to have female engineers, tradeswomen, accountants and lawyers, doctors, artists, designers — everyone.”

Key to the future success of BasBlue is its interaction with the community, which includes nearby Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Historical Museum, among others.