It’s a sad day for lovers of Eastern Market and a quirky deli that’s beloved by many. Mark Kurlyandchik over at the Freep is reporting that Russell Street Deli in Eastern Market is closing September 28. The reason? A landlord/tenant...
The District Detroit was supposed to be a 50-block development that was going to change the landscape of downtown Detroit near Little Caesars Arena. Well, it has changed. It’s now a sea of $40 parking lots and beautiful architectural husks as...
A piece of history is up for sale. The former Ford Motor Company Sales and Service Building that was part of the Highland Park Ford Plant is for sale according to a DBusiness report. The Sales and Service building offers 54,000 square feet of space...
A truth I’ve learned here living most of my life is that Metro Detroiters love their chains. There are three of them opening in Macomb County. One’s a burger joint, the other a fitness place and the third the popular Chick-ail-A...
Detroit-based architecture firm Rossetti has released some updated renderings for The Corner, its $30 million mixed-use development taking shape on the former site of Tiger Stadium at Michigan Avenue and Trumbull. Rossetti and Larson Realty...
The saga of Detroit’s Packard Plant continues, as a city-owned portion of the plant south of Grand Boulevard is being demolished. An eagle-eyed photographer Felicia Fullwood first caught wind of it. View this post on Instagram Demolition on...
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...
Despite its new owner’s promises to build a brewery, office space, a hotel and more, Detroit’s infamous Packard Plant is once again subject to foreclosure by Wayne County in 2019, according to notices published in the Detroit Legal News last month...
Remember that building that had that brouhaha about the giant, 125-foot rainbow mural on the side of it by Katie Craig? Well, it’s seeing new life. And the mural is staying. The nine-story 75,000 square foot building on East Grand Boulevard...
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...
There’s some neighborhood development news over on Detroit’s far east side in Jefferson Chalmers. Two historic apartment buildings on Marlborough Street just off of Jefferson will be redeveloped into 23 new apartments. The buildings have...
The big news around Detroit today is the groundbreaking on the Monroe Block. That’s the two-block site adjacent to Campus Martius where Dan Gilbert and Bedrock plan an $830 million development to add 1.4 million square feet of housing, office...
On today’s show: Jer was back at Michigan Central Station today and checked in on the progress of the restoration and renovation as phase one kicks off. The Michigan Legislature is taking up a set of controversial bills, most with the aim of...
Today’s podcast checks out a project in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. There is a set of buildings along John R between Kenilworth and Westminster streets that has just had a huge transformation. Four of the businesses along the block...
Here we go again. Yet another Detroit developer with ideas rooted in the 1980s is trying to bring down another great, old building that has been part of the fabric of the city. The latest is the news that the first Detroit Saturday Night Building at...
