March 22, 2018
Detroit’s mayor wants to use Michigan State Fairgrounds site to lure employers
The city of Detroit may buy most of the idled former Michigan State Fairgrounds site, where Mayor Mike Duggan wants...
economic development
March 8, 2018
Ferndale’s getting a new Peruvian restaurant called Culantro
A new Peruvian eatery called Culantro is getting set to open on Woodward Avenue in Ferndale. I spotted the bold,...
February 22, 2018
PODCAST: How Indianapolis funded transit, became an Amazon finalist
If you listened to our recent episode on Amazon’s snub of Detroit (and you totally should), you’ll recall that several...
February 10, 2018
Brooks Patterson’s comments on regional transit put the nails in the coffin for 2018
Some things just refuse to die. Like the longstanding divide between city and suburbs that has for so long characterized...
February 1, 2018
LISTEN: Will a new regional transit proposal make the ballot in 2018 in Detroit?
Last night we attended the annual meeting of the advocacy group Transit Riders United, where the fate of the Regional...
January 24, 2018
PODCAST: Detroit missed out on Amazon HQ2. What does that tell us?
I last wrote here about why it’s perfectly OK that Amazon didn’t pick the Detroit-Windsor bid for its list of...
January 18, 2018
Why it’s perfectly OK that Detroit lost out on the Amazon HQ2 bid
And in the end, Detroit will not get Amazon’s HQ2. No $5 billion investment, no 50,000 new jobs. We didn’t...
January 7, 2018
PODCAST: Clearing the smoke from Michigan’s fast-changing medical marijuana industry
There have been a lot of changes recently in Michigan’s nearly decade-old medical marijuana industry. The Legislature passed new laws...
December 27, 2017
PODCAST: Construction chief Todd Sachse talks Detroit development, past, present and future
As the founder and CEO of Sachse Construction, Todd Sachse has been involved in many of Detroit’s biggest development projects...
December 12, 2017
8-Wood Blog stars in new Daily Detroit video about redeveloping I-375
After writing about the state’s proposal to redevelop I-375 in Detroit as a surface-level boulevard, I partnered with my podcast...
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