October 28, 2015
Cinema Detroit has new digs, but needs new digital equipment
The good news about Cinema Detroit: The only remaining seven-day-a-week movie theater in Detroit’s core has a much-improved, more conventional...
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October 21, 2015
What are the chances the Woodward Avenue Complete Streets ever becomes reality?
The new Woodward Avenue Complete Streets plan might be the most exciting and ambitious idea to introduce urbanity and improve...
October 9, 2015
Applebee’s, opening soon on 8 Mile, is the latest remarkable thing happening in Detroit
First it’s Pizza Hut and now Applebee’s: Is 8-Wood Blog going all-in on Corporate Food? (Hell no, but bear with...
September 29, 2015
Detroit’s New Center finally attracting attention from investors
Detroit’s venerable New Center Area is attracting hundreds of millions of dollars from investors eager to cash in on the...
September 13, 2015
In Ilitch arena district, a new round of development versus historic preservation
As construction on the Ilitchville Detroit Red Wings arena district-formerly-know-as-the-Cass-Corridor continues apace, now comes word that more vacant, historic buildings...
August 20, 2015
Today in dubious trend pieces: Hazel Park is hip?
From The Detroit News today comes surprising word that Hazel Park — a dreary inner-ring suburb best known for a...
July 31, 2015
In praise of good urban design: Detroit’s new Townhouse restaurant
Detroit doesn’t always feel like the big city it is — or at least was. Whether that’s because it essentially...
July 10, 2015
Bye-bye, Zombieland: Park Avenue Hotel bites the dust
Tomorrow morning, demolition crews will use 200 pounds of TNT to level the 91 year-old Park Avenue Hotel, a storied...
June 23, 2015
Bikes, trains and buses: A week of positive transit-related news for Detroit
Could the Motor City, long defined by its increasingly pothole-ridden road network and an unreliable bus system, be ready to...
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