August 24, 2017
Plans for Monroe Block suggest density, modernism coming to Detroit
There’s big downtown Detroit development news — and to no one’s surprise, Dan Gilbert is involved — as Bedrock Detroit...
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August 3, 2017
Protected bike lanes coming to Grand River Ave. in Detroit
We got a good rundown on planned bike lane installations during a recent Daily Detroit Happy Hour episode with Todd...
June 22, 2017
Photos of 8 Mile’s newest mural, ‘Detroit is a Black Woman’
Detroit artist Ndubisi Okoye has completed his new mural on a building along the south side of Eight Mile Road...
June 21, 2017
PODCAST: Detroit’s ‘Lower East Side’ may be the city’s next boom area
The east riverfront area of Detroit, an 18.4 square-mile district that stretches from downtown to the border with Grosse Pointe...
June 19, 2017
Car-free pedestrian plazas suddenly all the rage in the Motor City
Detroit, for decades a monument to the hegemony of the automobile, is increasingly ceding road real estate to pedestrian uses,...
June 8, 2017
PODCAST: Co-founder Jason Hall on the growth and evolution of Slow Roll Detroit
The good folks from Slow Roll Detroit stopped by this week’s Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast to talk about what’s...
June 7, 2017
Detroit artist Ndubisi Okoye selected for 8 Mile mural
The Eight Mile Boulevard Association has chosen the artist whose winning design will become a mural on the wall of...
May 31, 2017
PODCAST: Touring Detroit’s rapidly expanding network of bike trails with Todd Scott
In the latest installment of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast I talk with Todd Scott, the executive director of...
May 23, 2017
PHOTOS: Launch of Detroit’s MoGo bike sharing system another step in city’s transformation
MoGo, the new Detroit bike sharing system, launched today, and your intrepid 8-Wood correspondent was invited to attend the event...
May 18, 2017
Abandoned building on 8 Mile to get mural as part of ‘Art on 8’ initiative
An abandoned building on Eight Mile Road near Livernois will soon be brightened with a new mural, thanks to a...
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