July 12, 2016
Step back to 1985 with this Detroit business promotional video
The ‘80s were a pretty bleak time for Detroit. The auto industry was in crisis, and the city was firmly...
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July 11, 2016
Demolition work begins for huge new Ferndale loft building
Demolition work has begun on a vacant grocery store in downtown Ferndale where developers plan to build a $14.9 million...
June 25, 2016
Detroit’s Brush Park will never be the same after new development. Is that a good thing?
Detroit’s historic Brush Park, a once-grand neighborhood just north of downtown that once was filled with ornate Victorian homes that...
June 19, 2016
Anita’s Kitchen owners plan mixed-use restaurant development in Ferndale
The owners of Anita’s Kitchen, a popular Lebanese eatery in downtown Ferndale, have acquired two adjacent properties on Woodward Heights...
June 4, 2016
Great Lakes Coffee eyes vacant Detroit firehouse for tasting room, mixed-use development
Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co. is talking with city officials about purchasing and redeveloping a vacant, historic firehouse in southwest...
June 1, 2016
New RTA video pitches ‘Rapid, Reliable, Regional’ tagline in preview of transit tax pitch
The Regional Transit authority of Southeast Michigan released its long-awaited master plan today regarding its $4.6 billion public transportation plan,...
May 19, 2016
Gleaming new football field rising from Detroit’s decimated urban prairie
Chene Street is one of those places you can go in Detroit if you ever need a reality check and...
May 13, 2016
Here’s how the RTA’s plans to improve Detroit regional transit are shaping up
There would still be shortcomings and gaps, but plans to shore up our embarrassingly inadequate public transportation system in metropolitan...
May 7, 2016
Bike share contract adds to ‘pretty damn fast’ growth for Detroit Bikes
Homegrown bicycle maker Detroit Bikes LLC hopes to be able to soon turn its first profit in the wake of...
May 4, 2016
Ferndale could see 90 new housing units at 2 school sites
A former adult-education high school and a college-prep high school could be demolished and the properties redeveloped as housing under...
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