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Jer Staes
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PODCAST: "You're There To Serve People" - Jonathan Merritt On Running A Cafe And Being A Pastor

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-26-Happy_hour_Narrow-Way_mixdown.mp3″ image=”http://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/c/0/7/dc072c4ef90f0b86/IMG_1458_1.jpg” download=”true” social_gplus=”false” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” twitter_username=”TheDailyDetroit” ] Narrow Way Cafe is one of the newest additions to Livernois Avenue in Detroit. But, this isn’t a podcast about coffee. In today’s episode Sven Gustafson, touches on the cafe – but the...

Shianne Nocerini
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28 Things Going On In Marvin Gaye's Old Neighborhood, The Avenue Of Fashion

There has been a lot of news about Bucharest opening on Livernois over the last couple of weeks (it’s finally open, by the way). But if you have been around the northwest neighborhoods you would have known that the area of Livernois between 7 Mile and 8 Mile has a whole host of businesses already. First, a little history. This area is often called The Avenue of Fashion because it was a major shopping district in the 1950s. Shoppers would come to shop at B. Siegel, Sibley’s Shoes, Jacobson’s,...

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Bike Lanes, Other Changes Are Being Tested On Livernois ‘Avenue of Fashion’

The City of Detroit is conducting a demonstration project on a roughly half-mile stretch of Livernois Avenue to test the idea of calming traffic, installing bike lanes and making other improvements to give a boost to businesses in the city’s so-called “Avenue of Fashion.” Crews have installed orange barrels, temporary signage and rubber crosswalk mats, with lines temporarily painted on the pavement to mark bike lanes and a barrier from the parking lanes, which take up one of two lanes of traff...

Stephanie Held
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Nelson Mandela Tribute At Art In Motion

Nelson Mandela visited Detroit in June of 1990 shortly after leaving prison and before his election as South Africa’s president. His presence impacted our city with such reverence that Detroit renamed Atwater Street to “Nelson Mandela Drive.” This past weekend, I met Ida Hawkins. She’s a New York born artist, nestled on Livernois in Detroit – very alive to what people need to see visually. Now a little over a year after Mandela’s passing, Hawkins, too, desired to continue to honor his life. At...

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