Today is the soft opening for the Detroit Shipping Company, the new food court/biergarden/art gallery/event space made out of shipping containers in Midtown the lower Cass Corridor. While it doesn’t open for real until July 30, we got a chance to check it out during a...
Activity at the site of the $8 million 7.Liv mixed-use development has entered a new phase with the demolition of a former pharmacy next to the long-vacant B. Siegel Department Store on the corner of 7 Mile and Livernois on Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion. The corner has been...
One of the popular narratives of Detroit’s comeback is that it doesn’t include the neighborhoods. But a program, Fitz Forward, is over by McNichols (Six Mile) and Livernois is solidly in the Detroit neighborhoods and there are big plans in motion. You can listen to the story in...
My wife and I talk a lot lately about what to do with our house. We just passed our 13th anniversary of buying our first home here in Ferndale. We’ve had two children in that time. Our home is, at long last, no longer under water, and we think...
If you’ve driven through Detroit’s New Center on Woodward Avenue you probably noticed a major new renovation project. It involves two buildings on the east side of the street… and it was spawned by graduate students at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. It’s...
This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for Saturday, March 31, 2018. -The suburb of Warren is trying to create a downtown -A Detroit councilman is being sued -Local furniture maker Floyd is opening up a retail shop in Eastern Market -The State of Michigan adds 21 more schools...
When it comes to planning our city, we had hoped developers might have learned a lesson after the demolition spree of the last few decades, where building after building was torn down for surface parking lots. After all, Dan Gilbert (and a host of other developers, large and small) have...
In place of the historic Statler Hotel will be a development that will have “sexy bathrooms.” I’m not exactly sure what that means, but one can only imagine. Today was the official ground breaking for the new City Club Apartment – Central Business District Detroit mixed-use apartment building. City Club...
In the heart of the Motor City lies a freeway whose days are numbered. I-375 is a mile-long, sunken freeway serving downtown Detroit. Its construction half a century ago destroyed an historic African-American neighborhood. Today, the freeway and its bridges are literally crumbling. It forms a barrier between Greektown and...
The historic Avenue of Fashion is going to get some new swagger thanks to a new mixed-use development called “7.Liv.” Developer Bagley Forest Properties, LLC plans to rehab the former B. Siegel Department Store building at the corner of Seven Mile and Livernois. Two buildings next door to the...
I last spent time in Woodbridge Farms, my old neighborhood, last fall, when I joined some coworkers to plant trees with crews from the Greening of Detroit. And I wrote about what I saw and how it illustrated the dramatic and jarring ways that Detroit is changing. But nothing quite...
A year from now, Selden street in Detroit between Second and Fourth will have a completely different feel than it does now. That’s thanks to news out of Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood today, announced by Midtown Inc., the nonprofit group that is the engine of development in the area....
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This story is for the the dogs.. literally. And their owners too. Canine To Five, the dog daycare founded in 2005 in Detroit on Cass Avenue just south of Martin Luther King, is expanding their original location by 7,000 feet and approximately 300 paws (assuming each of the dogs...
If you haven’t been through Capital Park lately, you might have missed the construction that is currently happening on Grand River and Griswold Street on the site of what was most recently a parking lot and strip club. 28Grand is a mix used apartment building that is being built...
Back in October there was an announcement about a new business school building for the Mike Ilitch School of Business – well, on Wednesday, the actual work is getting underway. To be located at the corner of Temple and Woodward, right next to the new Little Caesars Arena, the school of...
The riverfront is starting to heat up as a development destination. On Tuesday, Partners of Rivertown Phase, LLC were joined by business and community leaders to mark the start of construction with a ceremonial groundbreaking for Orleans Landing — a $65 million public-private funded, mixed-use development located on the Detroit Riverfront,...
Detroit’s budding technology sector is set to receive another boost, helping to grow the city’s presence as a tech savvy market worthy of national attention. On Monday morning online retail juggernaut Amazon.com announced that it will build a technology hub in downtown Detroit, bringing more full-time tech...
