What To Know And Where To Go In Southeast Michigan
Detroit's Q*Bert-esque convention center has been named after former Mayor Albert Cobo since it opened in 1960. That's set to change, with today's announcement that the authority that runs Cobo awarded naming rights to Chemical Bank for $1.5 million per year for 22 years. Mayor Mike Duggan has said for years that he thinks the convention center should be renamed, and on …
Paul Ajegba, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's nominee to head the Michigan Department of Transportation, faced a grilling in a state Senate committee on Tuesday. And he let slip a rather interesting tidbit, saying that MDOT likely needs another $1.5 billion in funding just to fix state roads. And that doesn't account for the needs of counties, cities and villages. On today's show, we …
Greetings, fellow snow-bound Detroiters. We didn't let the weather interfere with our podcast plans today and delivered this show from the Royal Oak studio of Podcast Detroit. On today's show, newly Detroit-based Chemical Bank is merging with Minnesota-based TCF Bank in an all-stock merger of equals. The deal will see TCF vacate its suburban Minneapolis headquarters and …
We thought when we went into the office today, it'd be a short day. We were wrong. Here's what to know around town: I-75 is crumbling. Both the Northbound and Southbound lanes have major emergency repairs underway. A highly dispiriting for Martin Luther King Jr. Day - The Detroit News reports that a former political aide to Warren Mayor Jim Fouts says the mayor …
A boil water advisory that officials initially said would be in effect until Thursday has been lifted. That's according to a press release sent this morning by the Great Lakes Water Authority and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. DWSD received confirmation from GLWA indicating that the most recent round of testing shows no bacterial contamination in Detroit’s …
In April we did a story on the Container Store coming to Novi, and a good number of people flipped their lids over it. The Grand Opening of the Container Store was on Saturday, June 4 and there were more than 100 shoppers in line and waiting to get their organization game on. But that’s not all. The …
