On today’s show (yes, we’re moving to mornings! Finally!) – A film focusing in part on a Detroit automaker, “Ford V. Ferrari,” takes the top spot at the box office – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is in Israel...
Here’s a Detroit small business trying to make a brick and mortar space happen. Detroit Mini Donut has launched their crowdfunding campaign to move into a space on East Grand River in downtown Detroit. Detroit Mini Donut was started by Karen...
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Saturday, March 24, 2018. We take you on a narrative audio tour of the new Amazon.com facility in Livonia that’s the size of 28 football fields. We also have am Amazon Livonia facility gallery here...
Plans are in motion to install a new 1.5 acre garden that will be located in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon between the bandshell and the Whitcomb Conservatory gardens. The garden will be one of collaboration between Oudolf, Belle Isle...
Life At The Historic Grande Ballroom? Supporters Are Fundraising For A Structural Engineering Report
The Grande Ballroom is one of the most hallowed spaces in Detroit music history. It has been home to jazz, big band, rock. It was a center of Detroit’s counterculture movement. It also is a gem of a building designed by Charles Agree and...
It’s a story of a Detroit company done good. Ash and Erie (formerly known as Ash & Anvil), a seller of clothes for shorter guys, received $150,000 in investment from Billionaire Mark Cuban. Originally, they were aiming for $100,000 at a 12...
Detroit SOUP is an internationally acclaimed community dinner that has helped crowd fund 57 projects, 48 nonprofits, and 27 for-profit enterprises. The idea is simple. It’s a potluck where some folks bring food, and attendees throw in at least...
A church built in 1891 and expanded in 1921 needs some help to restore it after a significant part of the façade was destroyed. A chunk of the front of the building fell off of the First Congregational Church of Detroit, located at Forest and...
Rosie the Riveter is such an iconic image, that sometimes people forget that it was more than just one woman that worked on the home front providing aid during World War II. Sure, there are books about the women behind the war time effort and...
[smart_track_player url=”; social_gplus=”false” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” ] It seems in America today we’re divided in a million ways. By politics. By religion. By race. But projects...
Do you remember the story of the Dutch boy who stuck his finger in the dike to stop the leak and saved the town? That’s what three Dutch architecture students are doing in Detroit. They hope to put their finger in the dike and help Detroiters cut...
One of the scourges of Detroit’s depopulation has been the empty school buildings left behind. As students continue to leave the public school district in Detroit, in the wake are left many hulks of buildings smack dab in the neighborhoods of the...
One of the things that goes hand and hand with warm breezes and beautiful parks are kites. But what if the island park had a whole kite festival? To that end, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and Detroit Kite Festival announced...
Veterans are a group of heroes that often fall through the cracks in society. They’re overlooked by their communities most of the year. They’re underserved by government agencies, stretched thin by budget concerns. Many of Detroit’s homeless...
Tax foreclosure is a devastating issue in Detroit, especially for families. It turns neighborhoods on their heads and hampers the sense of community so vital to rebuilding the city. The Tricycle Collective, a local non-profit, is currently raising...
