What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Welcome back from the holiday weekend, comrades. Today's show is Episode 300 of your Daily Detroit, and for that we thank you, our listeners. We also dive into two pieces of Ilitch-related news: First, that Olympia Development has missed a deadline to submit a development proposal for a parcel on Woodward between the Little Caesars Arena and I-75. After already receiving a …
The District Detroit has gotten a lot of critical media coverage. It's pretty clear that the renderings portrayed when the project launched haven't matched the reality. Instead of city-like streets full of life and teaming with offices, retail and residential — it's a sea of surface parking lots. Although the Ilitch organization has been getting a lot of the arrows (see …
The HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" last week turned its lens on the District Detroit, the Ilitch family's mostly unrealized plan to redevelop 50 blocks as a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood between downtown and Midtown. Predictably, it did not go well for the Ilitches, who received $324 million in taxpayer assistance in exchange for what so far is the Little Caesars …
The District Detroit was supposed to be a 50-block development that was going to change the landscape of downtown Detroit near Little Caesars Arena. Well, it has changed. It's now a sea of $40 parking lots and beautiful architectural husks as development timelines get blown again and again. Although there were a lot of promises made early on — and hundreds of millions in …
On today's show, we have some fun discussing the return of the WLLZ call letters to Detroit's FM airwaves, and by listener request we talk about the elephant in the room, the so-called District Detroit, in the wake of the big story that ran over the weekend in Crain's. First up is a new Patronicity campaign to help restore Hamtramck Stadium, which hosted Detroit's various …
Here are the show notes for the Daily Detroit News Byte Podcast recorded on July 31, 2018. Next week is the primary election in Michigan, and many voters in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties will be weighing the issue of transit. And Sven and Jer weigh in with their opinions. Janitors that take care of …
