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Things To Do In Detroit This Weekend: Your City 5 For May 10-12

Are you all ready for Mother's Day this year? It's this Sunday after all. If you haven't gotten your stuff together for the special mom's in your life, I'm going to say get your stuff together. You're running out of time. Sven wrote up a nice little round up of places to go for Mother's Day. There's a few great options for brunches and such. To all of the moms out …

Riverfront Property In Detroit To Become A Big Parking Lot Under DTE Land Swap

Welcome to your Tuesday edition of Daily Detroit, where we deliver two pieces of big news: Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he has stage four pancreatic cancer and won't seek an eighth term in 2020.DTE Energy says it expects to sign a deal with the city to swap a decommissioned power plant on the east riverfront so it can be used to store Jeeps built at a …

PODCAST: The Potential Of Detroit’s East Side With Josh Elling Of Jefferson East

[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-17-Happy_hour_Elling_mixdown.mp3" social_gplus="false" social_linkedin="true" social_email="true" twitter_username="TheDailyDetroit" ] One of the most interesting stories in Detroit is that of the lower east side of the city. It's more than 18 square miles, encompassing Lafayette Park, through …

Detroit’s Legendary Goat Yard Is For Sale

Detroit has a long history of misfits, creatives, gadflies, rabble rousers, and people who are wonderfully outside of the social "norm." One of the many places in the city that was defined by the people in it was the "Goat Yard," a small boat yard on the east side of the city over by the foot of St. Jean. It was maybe the last hippie boat yard, the Detroit Boat Works. For …