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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April 10, 2018
Bike lanes to be extended on East Jefferson in Detroit
East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit will go on a road diet this spring, shrinking from three to two lanes in...
March 24, 2018
More housing, condos could be built in red-hot Ferndale
More new housing could be headed to Ferndale as further sign of the city’s red-hot housing market. As the Detroit...
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...
February 27, 2018
Regional MoGo bike sharing could expand to Ferndale, 5 other suburbs
UPDATE: MoGo has also received a $35,000 grant from the Better Bike Share Partnership to work with the cities 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...
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...
December 5, 2017
MDOT down to 2 alternatives to replace I-375 in Detroit
Interstate 375’s days are numbered. The mile-long freeway, which destroyed an historic African American neighborhood in Detroit 50 years ago...
November 1, 2017
Ferndale’s new mixed-use 4-story parking garage will be called ‘the dot’
In the battle of adorably named parking structures, Detroit has the Z Garage, and Ferndale will have the “dot.” After...
September 2, 2017
New protected bike lanes going in on Cass Avenue
If you’ve been on Cass Avenue in Detroit lately, you might’ve seen some kiosks being installed along the sidewalks in...
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