Hey friends,
This month, we're losing about 80 minutes of daylight before September ends... so let's make the best of it while we have it. Before you know it, we'll be back in Cuddle Alert season again.
I love seasons, but weather that's good for writing outside is probably one of my favorite things. It helps nurse the pain from the Lions loss (that we talked about on today's podcast).
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I'll be handing part of this edition off to Randy Walker, who visited one of Detroit's brand new restaurants. Then I'll be back with a closing and some new developments.
🍣 Sushi Lounge is now open inside Detroit Shipping Company.
It is the second concept in the Midtown food hall operated by Chef Genevieve Vang (the first being Bangkok 96 Street Food). It occupies the space that formerly held -320 Coffee & Creamery.
Chef Vang said the grand opening on Saturday, September 6 saw a huge crowd of patrons eager to try the new restaurant.
The menu features classics like California and Philadelphia rolls as well as unique rolls with Detroit-inspired names.
Whatuproll! consists of fried crab stick, cucumber, roasted red pepper, asparagus, avocado, eel, and Fresno. The Motown Getdown is a mix of tuna, salmon, avocado, pickled cabbage, and tamago (Japanese for egg).
Visitors can also order chirashi (sushi toppings on a bed of rice) and other sushi restaurant staples like steamed edamame.
I had the California roll and the tempura shrimp roll and both were excellent.
Portions were also hearty — each roll had eight pieces accompanied by the traditional pickled ginger, spicy wasabi paste, and soy sauce for dipping.
The restaurant says that their menu is 100% gluten-free and sustainably sourced.
Find Sushi Lounge six days a week on the second floor of Detroit Shipping Company at 474 Peterboro Street in Detroit, and online.
Hours: Sunday noon–9p; Tuesday 4p–9p; Wednesday 4p-9p; Thursday 4p-10p; Friday 4p–11p; and Saturday noon–11p.
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What To Know
🚲 It's the end of the trail for the Trek bike store in Detroit's Midtown on Woodward at Mack. First opened as Electric Avenue Bikes in 2019, it was later purchased by Trek. Sales are in effect, 20% off on bikes and 50% off on accessories. Last day is October 4.
🪫 A $210m battery plant project has been cancelled in Detroit. The project by Fortescue was to create as many as 600 jobs in the city's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood. [Crain's Detroit Business]
This one of many battery projects recently cancelled in Michigan, with thousands of potential jobs axed before they could even get off the ground amid changing priorities in Washington D.C. Here's what the global mining giant had to say:
Current policy settings and market conditions in the United States, including recent changes to critical tax credits, have created significant uncertainty around the viability of long-term investment in advanced manufacturing.
🚍 The transit nerd in me can't help but smile about a Bus Roadeo. Yes, I spelled it correctly as it's on roads. That's where drivers show off their skills in a competition — this is the first one held by SMART in decades. This was in Novi. [ClickOnDetroit]
In case you don't know, SMART is the suburban bus system, separate from Detroit's Department of Transportation that focuses on service within the city.
🚧 Should some townships in Metro Detroit become cities? Michigan's road funding formula gives more resources and rights to cities vs. townships. [WXYZ]
For me, it's a case-by-case basis. In the report, WXYZ talks about Clinton Township — now with more than 100,000 people.
Fun fact: Clinton Township first "recorded" settlement was New Gnadenhuetten in 1782. Don't ask me to say it on the podcast.
👀 Eye Spy
🏗️ Work is underway at The Hive on Gratiot in Detroit. This a residential and commercial project on Gratiot and Russell, between the Eastern Market and Lafayette Park neighborhoods. It had faced delays, per Outlier Media. I'm hoping to get more details for you.
🧱 A three-story building is rising at Kercheval and Alter in Detroit. The first floor will be a daycare, and the second and third floors apartments. A project by developed Jon Cotton (the family made a lot of their money from the sale of Meridian Health Plan Michigan), it's the first of what could be three phases on the block bordering Grosse Pointe Park.
🔥 Hot history! London has Big Ben. Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Egypt has the pyramids. And Detroit once had the world's largest stove. A wild tale you'll want to sit down and read. [Historic Detroit]
I vividly remember seeing the old giant Garland Stove. I know we have a lot of new people around here... but do you? I'm not THAT old... as a friend also in their 40s likes to say, I'm a veteran at being a young guy.
BTW, good to run into some of you at Dally in the Alley over the weekend. What a great tradition.
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Remember that you are somebody,
-Jer
p.s. - Some of you had to know what today's song was going to be. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day.
