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News Byte Podcast: Little Caesars HQ, For The Love Of Sugar, A Diner Discussion And More

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Check Out The Construction Progress Of Downtown Detroit's New Beacon Park

Across Grand River from the beautifully restored Grand Army of the Republic building a park is under construction, paid for by DTE Energy. Today, that park got a name. According to the Empowering Michigan blog, it’s going to be called “Beacon Park.” The circular, open lawn is the largest of any downtown Detroit park and gives visitors room to run, play, relax and recharge. With year-round programming, interactive light installations, and a brasserie-style restaurant with a rooftop garden, se...

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600,000+ In Region Without Power, Metro Airport Records 68 MPH Winds

To state the obvious, it’s been windy here in Metro Detroit today. But just how windy has it been? And what are the impacts? The National Weather Service has been recording 24-hour peak winds and as of a couple of hours ago, Detroit Metro Airport topped out the reports at a whopping 68 miles per hour. Readings in Pontiac, St. Clair Shores and City Airport hit 61 MPH as of 8:14 p.m. “…The severity of the windstorm has exceeded all of our forecasts and it’s impacted over 600,000 of our DTE Ene...

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Construction Work Underway For The New Park On West Side Of Downtown (PICS)

A tipster sent us photos of work underway at what some are calling the second Campus Martius Park. DTE Energy announced the 1.5 acre park back in June. It’s located on the west side of downtown Detroit on Grand River Avenue across from the historic G.A.R. building that’s home to the hot restaurants of Republic and Parks & Rec. They are pouring the foundations for the buildings (especially the restaurant) located at the top of the rendering we’ve included below before the cold weather sets in...

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DTE Promises New Ferndale Substation By 2017 As Outages Keep Rolling

Those of us who live in Ferndale are no strangers to aggravating summertime power outages. In fact, there was one earlier this week — more on that below. More recently, you may have noticed the presence of utility trucks and bare utility poles and other equipment stacked along certain streets waiting to be installed. Now we know why. DTE Energy announced this week that it’s spending $76 million to boost electrical reliability for more than 30,000 customers in Ferndale, Hazel Park and Troy. The...

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Pair Of Motor City Streets Will Close To Cars And Open To People For First Ever Open Streets Detroit

Get ready for family fun on the streets of Detroit this fall. Open Streets Detroit will temporarily turn two major city streets into safe, open, car-free zones for local families and the community to run, bike, shop, and play together. There has never before been an event like this in Detroit. Open Streets Detroit, presented by DTE Energy will include free and fun activities, including yoga, soccer, dance workshops, and dog activities. The lineup of events is the result of more than 75 organiz...

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DTE Energy Donates $2.5 Million To Help Low Income Residents Pay Bills

Detroit-based DTE Energy announced today it donated $2.5 million to assist low-income residents in the city of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The donation is expected to help encourage enrollment of nearly 3,000 customers in DTE’s Low-Income Self-Sufficiency Plan (LSP), aimed at providing relief to residents who are struggling to pay their energy bills. Detroit experienced its eighth-hottest July on record, with nine days of temperatures reaching at least 90 degrees. Extreme temperatures –...

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Downtown Detroit Is Getting A New 1.5 Acre Park Inspired By Boston

On Tuesday DTE Energy broke ground on a 1.5 acre public park on the western edge of downtown Detroit. The park will act as a family-friendly green space and help anchor the emerging neighborhood along Grand River Avenue, across from the Grand Army of the Republic building.. Residents, visitors, and downtown workers will be able to play, eat, and enjoy downtown Detroit. “We see this as an opportunity to create connectivity in an area of the city that has ‘lived on an island’ for decades. Our...

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Smart Cities Challenge Comes To Detroit, $100,000 Up For Grabs

Detroit has made a name for itself when it comes to innovation. From the automobile to the mechanical heart pump, Detroit has been at the forefront of new technology. NextChallenge: Smart Cities will help ensure that it stays there. Hosted by NextEnergy, DENSO, DTE Energy, and Wells Fargo, the global Smart Cities challenge aims to encourage friendly competition in an effort to create hardware and software technology solutions for the growing problems facing urban areas. “Urban populations ar...

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Plans Revealed To Build Solar Array In Decommissioned Detroit Park

DTE Energy has plans to build a solar energy array on 10 acres of vacant public property in a west-side Detroit neighborhood. The array itself would be built on a 20-acre area of city-owned land south of I-96 at Greenfield Road known as O’Shea Playground. The site was decommissioned by the city’s recreation department in 2011 and has since been stripped and damaged by fire. The solar panels would be situated eight to 10 feet off the ground and would be tilted away from I-96. They would gener...

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Ford Truck And Horse Trailer Worth $75,000 Donated by DTE Energy Foundation

The Detroit Police Department’s Mounted Police Division is one of our country’s oldest established law enforcement divisions, dating back to 1893 when it was founded. The Division, aside from its legacy, has seen an unfortunate decline in officers and horses available.  Once the mounted police had five barns, 80 officers, and more than 60 horses, but now they only operate from one barn in Palmer Park and have five horses. These officers continue to patrol year round, performing their duty an...

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DTE Energy Partners With Ford And Domino's Farms To Become Michigan's Largest Investor In Solar Power

DTE Energy announced today a partnership with Domino’s Farms and Ford Motor Company to build and operate the two largest solar arrays in Michigan. DTE has started building a 1.1-megawatt photovoltaic solar array at Domino’s Farms east of Ann Arbor. The array will be completed and operational by the end of the year. The project will include over 4,000 solar panels on property just north of M-14 and west of Earhart Road. The solar installation will have a maximum capacity of 1,089 kilowatts of e...

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DTE Energy Completes Renovation Of Art Deco Building Downtown

It may be one of the smaller buildings, but downtown Detroit has yet another renovation success story. DTE Energy has completed renovating the long-vacant Art Deco building across the street from its downtown Detroit headquarters as part of its investment in the neighborhood that the company has called home for more than a century. It will be named the Navitas House, and the structure had been vacant since 2004. Navitas is Latin for “energy.” The 32,000 square-foot, three-story building will...

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QUICK LOOK: Progress At The Former Salvation Army Building

As part of a larger plan to make improvements on and around its campus, DTE Energy has been at work sprucing up the former Salvation Army building on Bagley. It’s directly across from DTE Headquarters, and although it needed some repairs when it was purchased, it structurally was sound. It was bought a couple of years ago for an undisclosed purchase price. We ran across the structure today and snapped some photos of the art-deco-ish structure. There are also LED lights at night that accent the...