What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan

Select Detroit Symphony Orchestra Concerts To Be Aired On Comcast TV

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s live concerts are coming to cable TV. The concerts will be broadcast on Comcast’s XFINITY channel 900, making the channel available to more than a million households here in Metro Detroit. The deal includes eight concerts this season, with more to be announced later. The DSO has long made classical concerts available online to watch. …

Part Of Detroit’s Packard Plant Is Being Demolished (PICS)

The saga of Detroit's Packard Plant continues, as a city-owned portion of the plant south of Grand Boulevard is being demolished. An eagle-eyed photographer Felicia Fullwood first caught wind of it. View this post on Instagram Demolition on parts of Packard officially started... It was a surreal feeling watching them tear down the exact spot where …

Is It Time For Toll Roads In Michigan?

So let's be clear. I don't like toll roads. The idea feels strange in the state that put the world on wheels. But we need to get real about what's facing us when it comes to road funding, and everything should be on the table. Our Detroit region is sprawling. The other week while reporting on a story in Macomb, I realized looking at Google Maps that the driving time from my …

Detroit’s Packard Plant Is On Wayne County’s 2019 Foreclosure List

Despite its new owner’s promises to build a brewery, office space, a hotel and more, Detroit’s infamous Packard Plant is once again subject to foreclosure by Wayne County in 2019, according to notices published in the Detroit Legal News last month. That’s due, at least in part, to unpaid bills to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. But the amount shows up as tax …

Here’s What’s Going Into That Rainbow Building On East Grand Boulevard: Chroma

Remember that building that had that brouhaha about the giant, 125-foot rainbow mural on the side of it by Katie Craig? Well, it's seeing new life. And the mural is staying. The nine-story 75,000 square foot building on East Grand Boulevard near New Center (technically, it's in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood) will become a food hall and co-working space called Chroma. …