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The Tricycle Collective Has One Day Left In Campaign To Help Detroiters Stay In Their Homes

The Tricycle Collective is striving to reach their goal of $20,000 to help 20 Detroit families purchase the homes that they live in, which are currently at risk to be sold in the Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction. With one day left, they need your support. Michele Oberholtzer may be familiar to readers of Daily Detroit. We wrote about her new initiative last year called the Tricycle Collective, which works hard to help keep Detroit residents in their homes by notifying homeowners about the...

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Talking Food, People And Revitalization At Detroit's Oldest Restaurant

If you want to learn something about Detroit and have an authentic experience, you’ve got to go to some places with deep roots. A top qualifier on that list is the Roma Cafe, whose history goes back to 1890, and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city. When you step in to the restaurant on a Friday, you can’t help but notice the old school vibe. Waiters in tuxedos walk by with steaming trays of food. Portraits of past owners decorate the rooms. The bar is busy with bustling...

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A Coney Opens In Brooklyn

The Sussman Brothers, Eli and Max, have opened a coney in Brooklyn called Ed & Bev’s Detroit Style Coney Island. Couple thoughts hit me right away. Detroit is so dang hip, restaurants with Detroit style food are now seeding around the country.  I got wind of a place last week called Via 313, a joint in Austin serving up Detroit style pizza. And no doubt there are others. Perhaps its not that Detroit will be the city that people from other cities flock to, but rather the city that people from h...

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Neighbors Turn Neglected Sinkhole Into A Fish Pond In Detroit

A gaping hole in the street near McNichols and Hull, just off of I-75 has been turned into a fish pond by the neighborhood. The large concrete cutout has been filled with algae and water for the last four years according to Uncle Zeke and Auntie Na (that is short for Sonia Renia Brown) who live on the street. They decided to take action and raise awareness about the problem, which they have more or less accepted as part of the landscape. “You can imagine it’s caused some problems for so...

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Meet The Man Behind The Million Dollar Detroit Baseball Card Mystery

Headlines about Detroit, especially when they happen at the intersection of abandonment and large sums of money, get a lot of attention. But what is the real story behind those stacks and stacks of baseball cards, and who owned them? There had to be more behind the vague headline that appeared in the UK’s Daily Mail on August 20 which read, “Urban explorers find $1MILLION-worth of collectible sports cards inside an abandoned factory in Detroit?” Although Detroit Tigers cards from the 90s wer...

Twists And Turns Emerge In The Tale Of The Tiger In The Packard Plant

It turns out there are two significantly different sides to this tiger tale. In an interesting post, Anthony Barchock, the fixer on the shoot and the person shown in the now nationally famous video, has another perspective that was published on fstoppers.com. [quote_box_center]”First and foremost the Tiger is OK, unharmed and was never loose. There was always a trainer on the lead even in the videos where it doesn’t seem like it. The power tools were used as a foreign noise to hopefully coax t...

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ABSURD: Tiger Escapes During Photo Shoot In Packard Plant

Move aside, Paws, it looks like there’s a new tiger in town. After a series of photos and videos surfaced on social media earlier today, sources with the Packard plant have confirmed that British photographer David Yarrow had brought a large tiger, two wolves, and a bobcat into the plant earlier today. According to the about page on Yarrow’s website, “David has built an unrivalled reputation for capturing the beauty of the planet’s remote landscapes and endangered animals.” I think this ti...

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WATCH: What Do People In Chicago Really Think About Detroit?

On a recent trip to the windy city, we decided to hit the streets and ask a simple question to anyone who would talk to us – and we found lots of people would. What do you think about Detroit? There’s always this talk about positive buzz about Detroit in other cities, and we wanted to find out if this was truly the case. In this Daily Detroit original video, which should be taken more as fun than as science, we hit a few neighborhoods by L-Train and city bus from our downtown crash pad suc...

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Charivari Captures The Heart And Soul Of Detroit

Sometimes in Detroit you’ll just end up at the answer. There will be good music and the weather will be perfect, and you can see into the future of what Detroit can be. At least, it will feel that way, and that’s what it felt like at Detroit’s Charivari festival on Belle Isle at the beginning of August. Charivari is a smaller festival that has big things going for it. First of all, it’s free. That means all types of people can afford to go to it and that’s cool. Secondly, it’s focused on loc...

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FIRST LOOK: Bobcat Bonnie's Is Real Good In The Neighborhood

Bobcat Bonnie’s is one of the latest additions to Detroit’s expanding dining scene. Located in the old site of Oblivion’s Corktown Cafe, Bonnie’s has a great corner location, a spacious atmosphere, a nice bar set up, and just a touch of hip décor for the kids. There is some mellow indie-rock playing in the background but you don’t need skinny jeans and a sidebuzz to eat here. It’s a place for everybody, the food is real and good. It’s also decently priced, catering more toward families and the...

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M-1 Rail Opening Will Be Delayed By Safety Regulation Snag

The M-1 Rail streetcar project, originally set to be operational and carrying passengers in 2016 has been delayed until spring 2017. According to project spokesmen Dan Lijana, the construction schedule has not been delayed, but the revised timeline is due to new federal safety regulations. Adherence to the regulations is required due to the fact that M-1’s funding is partially Federal, therefore it must meet new safety standards in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-2...

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Rose’s Fine Food Makes Bon Appétit’s List Of Best New Restaurants In Country

The small but usually packed diner on Jefferson is unique and it is receiving accolades. Today it was announced that Rose’s was nominated by Bon Appétit as one of “America’s Best New Restaurants in 2015.” It is exciting to see yet another example of Detroit’s food scene making national waves. The food at Rose’s is homestyle, made from scratch, organic, and just simply satisfying. It’s a diner experience with elevated food. On August 18 the list of 50 will be pared down to the Hot 10. Writers...

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Vine Video Shows Unveiling Of Baphomet Statue In Detroit

On Saturday The Satanic Temple of Detroit unveiled the bronze Statue of Baphomet, or the goat-headed version of Satan. It was revealed at a private showing, due to threats of violence that were received online. In order to know the location of the revealing event, ticket holders had to clear security checkpoints at two different locations. Reports are that somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 people attended. Photography was not allowed, but somebody managed to catch the reveal of the statue a...

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Pretending It’s All Good In Detroit

The racial divide in Detroit is a big topic of conversation lately. Whether it’s gentrification of downtown and midtown, access to water, diversity in the workplace, new vs. old Detroit, or incidents like the beating of Steven Utash, the conversation has cropped up in a lot of different ways as Detroit tries to rebound economically. But what does the situation look like on the ground? That’s something we’re very interested in as a publication. At about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday we got word that...

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PODCAST: These Two People Are Completely Transforming Detroit's Tech Landscape

If you could find two people who are irrevocably changing Detroit’s landscape as far as technology goes, you’d be hard pressed to find a more impactful pair than the CEO of Rocket Fiber Marc Hudson and Founder of Loveland Technologies Jerry Paffendorf. We caught up with them at the Mackinac Policy Conference and sat for an in-depth interview touching on a variety of Detroit-centric topics. After all, Hudson is doing what some thought impossible in bringing fiber speed internet to the city (...

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Senator Gary Peters Pushing To Cultivate Talent for Auto Industry of the Future

It’s no secret that Michigan has a problem retaining the people who are educated here. U.S. Senator Gary Peters sat down with us to discuss the talent exodus in the state and what’s being done in Washington to reverse that flow. When we visited Chicago last month, it seemed that about 1 out of every 5 or so people we met were from Detroit. It’s a great world class city with tons to do, but there’s also great jobs and a robust economy that make the draw to move there very strong. The question i...

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5 Basics To Help Understand The Mackinac Policy Conference And Why It's Important

The Mackinac Policy Conference is an important event where there are lots of people making business connections that drive the economy in our region. There are great speakers, fancy trappings, and lots of smiles and energy. It’s a curious event where you might meet the mayor of a nearby suburb riding a bike next to you on your way to breakfast at the Grand Hotel, or ham it up with a CEO of a large company over a beer at a social mixer. Here are 5 things we thought might put the experience into...

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Eastern Market’s Shed 5 Renovations Revealed

$8.5 million has been put into renovating Shed 5 at Detroit’s Eastern market, and it was unveiled to the public on Saturday May 2. The building required structural and mechanical upgrades, but the renovations also included the addition of a community kitchen, an indoor event space, and an outdoor plaza. The much anticipated community kitchen will offer rentable, commercial space for start-ups, established chefs, businesses, and the public. In addition to offering a venue to prepare food for ev...