June 21, 2019
LISTEN: How the Detroit suburb of Oak Park is sprucing itself up
For years, Oak Park was seen as an unassuming and tired inner-ring Detroit suburb. Its biggest claim to fame was...
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February 2, 2019
Planners pick Geary Park as location for Ferndale’s skatepark
Planners working on Ferndale’s much-awaited outdoor skatepark have settled on Geary Park as the preferred location, with construction set to...
January 16, 2019
What to know about ‘the dot,’ Ferndale’s new mixed-use parking structure
On a recent episode of the Daily Detroit podcast, I spoke with Ferndale’s assistant city manager, Joseph Gacioch, about the...
October 16, 2018
Plans for upgrading Ferndale’s Geary Park nearing vote by City Council
Basketball courts, soccer fields, a walking path and possibly Ferndale’s eagerly anticipated new skatepark could be coming to Geary Park...
October 10, 2018
Crime-ridden Motorama Motel on 8 Mile is for sale
Ferndale’s notoriously crime-ridden Motorama Motel, at the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, is for sale. And for...
August 3, 2018
Ferndale, Detroit win $250,000 grants for skate parks from Tony Hawk Foundation
Ferndale and Detroit got some good news this week when they learned they were the recipients of $250,000 matching grants...
July 18, 2018
Confirmed: MoGo bike share will expand to Detroit’s ‘Avenue of Fashion’ and 5 suburbs
As we reported last week on the Daily Detroit News Byte podcast, Detroit’s MoGo bike share program plans to expand next...
June 6, 2018
LISTEN: Talking the Rethink Royal Oak project with economic development manager Todd Fenton
If you’ve been to downtown Royal Oak recently, you’ve no doubt noticed lots of construction, as the city grows upward,...
April 22, 2018
In Ferndale, angst rises alongside housing prices
My wife and I talk a lot lately about what to do with our house. We just passed our 13th...
April 10, 2018
Ferndale’s police chief is out as city launches department investigation
Ferndale Police Chief Timothy Collins is on the way out as the city launches an investigation into the department in...
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