Co-Host - Former Oakland Press, AP and MLive reporter who also worked in corporate communications. Before that, he poured drinks. Listens to podcasts mostly when he runs.
Those of us who live in Ferndale are no strangers to aggravating summertime power outages. In fact, there was one earlier this week — more on that below. More recently, you may have noticed the presence of utility trucks and bare utility poles and other equipment stacked along certain streets waiting...
I’ve spent the past couple days riding the new RefleX bus, a limited-stop, express bus service between the suburbs and downtown Detroit, and I’m here to tell you: The Duran Duran song by the same name totally keeps popping into my head. Also, the three-year pilot program is...
With a little more than a month remaining in its crowdfunding campaign, an effort to raise $25,000 to fix the stained and leaded glass windows in the log cabin at Detroit’s historic Palmer Park is less than $8,000 shy of its goal. The nonprofit group People For...
Water features, a splash park, native plantings and a natural amphitheater for outdoor concerts are among the ambitious ideas Ferndale officials will be considering as part of a planned makeover of Martin Road Park, the city’s largest green space. The proposals are still in the conceptual stage and have...
The City of Detroit is conducting a demonstration project on a roughly half-mile stretch of Livernois Avenue to test the idea of calming traffic, installing bike lanes and making other improvements to give a boost to businesses in the city’s so-called “Avenue of Fashion.” Crews have installed orange barrels,...
A group of broadcast veterans wants to bring non-commercial community radio to the Rust Belt Market in downtown Ferndale and has launched a crowdfunding drive to help it get on the local airwaves. The group of friends recently launched Ferndale Radio on Indiegogo. They’re aiming to raise $15,000...
The 1980s were a pretty bleak time for Detroit. The auto industry was in crisis, and the city was firmly in decline, hemorrhaging jobs and residents. Children were being killed for their Air Jordans, crack cocaine was wiping out neighborhoods, and thugs were dropping cinderblocks into traffic from freeway overpasses....
Construction projects continue to reshape downtown Ferndale, with plans under way to build a two-story office and retail building on the site where a vacant residential structure was recently demolished. The roughly 3,700 square-foot site at 413 W. Nine Mile was recently cleared to make way for a two-story...
Demolition has begun on a vacant grocery store in downtown Ferndale where developers plan to build a four-story, $14.9 million mixed-use residential loft building. The Ferndale Downtown Development Authority posted photos and a video on Facebook of crews tearing down the former Save-A-Lot grocery store at 430 W. Nine...
The Detroit area may not be many people’s idea of a runner’s paradise, but that doesn’t mean we lack for runners — or good places to go for a run. After all, we’re home to the Hanson’s-Brooks Original Distance Project, a program that trains elite athletes...
The owners of Anita’s Kitchen, a popular Lebanese eatery in downtown Ferndale, have acquired two adjacent properties on Woodward Heights near Hilton where they are proposing an expanded new restaurant in an existing business and a new three-story residential and commercial building on a vacant lot. The City Council...
Detroit is a city that, for better or worse, is defined by its elaborate network of sunken freeways. They’ve sliced and diced entire neighborhoods, destroyed others completely and generally played havoc with the urban grid. And like anyone who depends on his car to get around here, I spend...
If it’s true that people across the country are once again embracing cities, then apparently the Detroit region missed the memo, as sprawl continues to reign supreme here. That’s my take on the latest annual U.S. Census Bureau estimates, released last month. Most of the media coverage...
Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co. is talking with city officials about purchasing and redeveloping a vacant, historic firehouse in southwest Detroit for its third location in the city, Daily Detroit has learned. The firehouse, at 3396 Vinewood St., is located just off Michigan Avenue in the Core City neighborhood, nearly...
The block of West Canfield Street, in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood between Cass and Second Avenues, is practically its own zip code at this point. It’s home to a disorientingly vibrant cluster of high-gloss retailers, like Shinola and the new Third Man Records, and a trio of hip eateries....
Chene Street is one of those places you can go in Detroit if you ever need a reality check and want to experience a neighborhood in true despair. Over decades of abandonment and disinvestment, the crack epidemic and rampant crime, the once-vibrant working class community surrounding a retail and business...
Bike to Work Day is Friday in Detroit, I’m excited and I’m putting on the full-court press for why you should join us. I previously wrote about how I’m involved in Bike To Work Day. As a reminder, please register so we have enough food and beverage...
There would still be shortcomings and gaps, but plans to shore up our embarrassingly inadequate public transportation system in metropolitan Detroit carry the distinct whiff of a credible and functional system that can compare with those found in other big cities. On Thursday, I stopped by the second of two...
