It’s no secret that this year has been the pits. With the ongoing pandemic things have been bleak. It’s been especially bleak for all of the small businesses trying to hang on. Now that the holidays are quickly approaching I have whipped...
MoGo, the bike-share system that launched a network of stations in Detroit in 2017, will launch its expansion into five northern inner-ring suburbs and northwest Detroit on June 4, Daily Detroit has learned. Crews will be installing five...
Oak Park is a diverse inner-ring suburb of more than 29,000 people nestled between Ferndale, Detroit, Berkley and Southfield. It’s in a great location, minutes from a variety of job centers. It’s seeing a lot more action as nearby cities...
Oak Park was a suburb known for years as a “dry” city, not allowing restaurants or bars to serve alcohol. Measure after measure to change that since the 1950s met defeat at the polls. That ban was recently lifted in two stages — and now the city is...
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...
In today’s episode of your Daily Detroit podcast: Federal law enforcement officials rounded up more than 120 missing children in Michigan as part of a giant sweep for sex trafficking victims. The Detroit Tigers will have a new team calling games...
As we reported last week, Detroit’s MoGo bike share program plans to expand next spring to new Detroit neighborhoods and five inner-ring suburbs. And we can now confirm that that Detroit neighborhood is the Livernois “Avenue of Fashion” district...
On today’s show, we dive into yesterday’s late-breaking news about Detroit City Council’s vote to establish the new Cass-Henry Historic District in the shadow of Little Caesars Arena. The district includes two buildings owned by the Ilitch family...
Bike sharing is rockin’ the suburbs (with all apologies to Ben Folds). One year into a successful launch in greater downtown Detroit, the nonprofit MoGo is expanding into more Detroit neighborhoods and five suburban cities. The regional expansion...
Detroit’s a geographically spread out region. So running to your favorite restaurant to pick something up might be a bit of a chore — or time you just don’t have between shifts or when you know you’re going to have to stay late...
The repaving of Pinecrest, which closed the north-south connector street between Nine Mile Road and Pleasant Ridge for most of the summer, has brought an additional benefit besides smoother pavement: semi-protected bike lanes. The bike lanes run...
A $5.1 million project by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will begin resurfacing 8 Mile Road (M-102) between Woodward Ave. (M-1) and the Southfield Freeway (M-39). The construction kicks off tonight, Monday, August 14 at 7 p.m. and...
Detroit, for decades a monument to the hegemony of the automobile, is increasingly ceding road real estate to pedestrian uses, most recently through the creation of outdoor public plazas. Since spring, at least three pedestrian plazas have opened...
Saturday, April 22 is Record Store Day. If you are into vinyl then you probably already know this. Instead of doing a regular old list of area record stores I thought I would change things up a bit. This year I wanted to know what people’s...
Few names elicit more happy memories involving sandwiches and love than Ernie’s. The long-standing Oak Park establishment (a place we’ve highlighted before in a sandwich list and a deli list) is manned by Ernie Hassan, who seals every...
