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Hotel-A-Palooza Comes To Detroit Plus 3 Things To Know

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Mar 25, 2019 by Sven Gustafson

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At least three boutique hotels are coming to Detroit, bringing a dose of luxury to still-gritty parts of the city. The Mid will take shape next to the old hammer-and-nail building on Woodward, while the West Elm Hotel will incorporate the old Bonstelle Theater several blocks south. And downtown, there plans for a new 154-room hotel at 600 West Lafayette, plus the old Park Hotel downtown just sold to a hospitality company, suggesting yet more hotel rooms could be possible.

Most of the hotels include mixed-use space, including some high-end “luxury” housing. On today’s show, we talk about what’s driving that, and why the spate of recent hotel development still isn’t enough to start landing us the really big mega-conventions and sportsball events. And on a tangent, we also dive into the idea that Detroit needs more Kroger or Meijer stores. FYI, there are some solid grocery stores here.

In other news, Sterling Heights has announced the five finalists for naming the so-called “Golden Corridor Icon” of Hall Road.

GOLDEN CORRIDOR ICON NAMING CONTEST: The results are in! We had 6,070 individual submissions, and with three options a…

Posted by Sterling Heights City Hall on Monday, March 25, 2019

Also:

  • Ferndale’s metered parking rates, and hours of enforcement, will go up April 1 — no April Fool’s joke here
  • And drinking aficionado website Liquor.com has named two Detroit bars at the opposite end of the spectrum among the best places to drink around the world

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