What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Good Wednesday afternoon, and welcome to a super Detroit-y edition of your Daily Detroit. Today, we walked over to the Avenue of Fashion, where Mayor Mike Duggan came to speak about the streetscape redevelopment of a roughly 1-mile section of Livernois to calm traffic and make the commercial district more attractive to pedestrians and, hopefully, prosperous to business …
A quick tip for you from the border of Detroit's University District and the Bagley neighborhood. The Biggby we had previously reported was coming to 18685 Livernois is now open. The same folks own it as the location in Ferndale at Livernois and 9 Mile. If you've been to a Biggby, you know what's in this store. This is similar to the ones I've been to in the past. Lots …
Activity at the site of the $8 million 7.Liv mixed-use development has entered a new phase with the demolition of a former pharmacy next to the long-vacant B. Siegel Department Store on the corner of 7 Mile and Livernois on Detroit's Avenue of Fashion. The corner has been busy for months, with crews working on underground infrastructure having dug up the entire corner. Today …
Seven Detroit neighborhoods would see $130 million in investment as part of a major, coordinated campaign with the Kresge Foundation. They’re going to do it through expanding the Strategic Neighborhood Fund. The first round was a $42 million campaign focused on three Detroit neighborhoods. The so-called 2.0 will also expand its scope to include streetscapes, park …
Greetings all of you go getters! I hope this week has started off well for you. We've been pretty busy over here at the Daily Detroit Headquarters, but busy is a good thing right? There are some great events happening this week so go out there and meet some new people. Casual Networking for Metro Detroit IT Professionals You know the deal with the IT in the D Casual …
Before the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., he used a version of it in Detroit at Cobo Hall in June of 1963. It was part of a “Walk to Freedom” march with more than 125,000 people in downtown Detroit was the largest until the …
