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PODCAST: Michigan State Fairgrounds May Become A Mass Transit Hub & Bring 1000+ Jobs, New Life For The Conner Plant, Happy Birthday Albert Kahn & More

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Wednesday, March 21st, 2018. * The State Fairgrounds site is to be bought by the city and could become a regional transit hub and job-focused development. We have words from Detroit mayor Mike Duggan and break it down. * The Conner Assembly Plant will find new life as a museum and meeting space. * Contractors for Little Caesars Arena come up short on hiring Detroit residents. * A proposed law would allow Detroit bars to stay open until 4 a.m. *...

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan Defeats Coleman Young Jr. In Landslide Victory

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has been rewarded with four more years by Detroit voters. Some pundits were thinking the shadow of Coleman A. Young would be cast upon the city of Detroit through his son, Coleman A. Young Jr. and people who remembered him, but that turned out to be not the case. The race quickly became a debate between whether there was one Detroit or if there were two, and if Duggan’s track record of progress had all Detroiters in mind. Duggan coasted to a landslide victory, win...

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Duggan Teases "We're Very Close" On Deal To Reduce Car Insurance Rates

At a midday press and community event at the Williams Recreation Center to talk about the expansion of affordable internet, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan dropped a teaser around progress in regard to car insurance reform. For context, Detroit, along with the state of Michigan, has the highest car insurance rates in the nation (here’s an explainer as to why). It’s not uncommon for residents to pay more than $400 a month for basic, no-fault auto insurance. “I have a meeting back at the office wi...

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“Board Up Brigades” Aim To Secure 11,000 Abandoned Detroit Homes In The Next 2 Years

Mayor Mike Duggan announced this week plans to board up 11,000 abandoned houses as part of a larger program to demolish, rehab or secure all of the approximately 25,000 existing blighted houses in the city over the next two years. According to the city, over the next two years they intend to demolish another 9,000 houses, rehabilitate 5,000, and board up the remaining 11,000. The plan will involve putting citizens returning to society from serving jail sentences to work. Currently there are...

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Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast: How Data Helps Drive Detroit's Comeback With Garlin Gilchrist II

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-4Happy-Hour-Garlin-GilchristII_mixdown.mp3″ social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” ] Data is playing an important role in shaping the city and working to improve services. Our guest this episode is Garlin Gilchrist II, the City of Detroit’s Director of Innovation and Emerging Technology for an interesting conversation about how data has been making a differ...

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Detroit's Bus Service To Gain 1,500 Trips A Week And Get More 24 Hour Lines, Says Mayor

In the Motor City, depending on who is doing the estimate, between 26% and a third of households do not own a car in the city of Detroit. That’s roughly the same percentage as Chicago or San Francisco – but we obviously don’t have the same transportation infrastructure. Here in Detroit our comparably lackluster system often locks people into poverty as they reasonably can’t get to or from work without a car. So what happens to transportation – especially the Detroit Department of Transportat...

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Riverside Park Improvements In Southwest Detroit To Get Underway Two Years Early

A year and a half ago, a land swap agreement was reached between the city of Detroit and the Detroit International Bridge Company to expand riverside park in exchange for land under and next to the current Ambassador Bridge. In the deal, there were to be new windows put on Michigan Central Station (which happened) as well as commitment to demolish the former Detroit News Warehouse by late 2018 and to transfer a 5-acre waterfront parcel to the city to expand Riverside Park. Today, Detroit May...

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11 Motor City Match Grant Winners Announced

Round four of Motor City Match, Mayor Mike Duggan’s business development program, saw 11 more winners emerge recently. These businesses will receive grant funding to help them grow or expand in Detroit’s neighborhood business corridors. The grants range in size from $15,000 to $75,000 and have been awarded to a variety of small businesses, including a cycling studio, a butcher shop, and a musical instrument retailer. Motor City Match connects new and expanding businesses with Detroit real es...

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Detroit Police Department To Get New 8th Precinct Building

The Detroit Police Department is shifting its focus from larger police patrol districts to smaller neighborhood precincts, with the help of a new building. Police Chief James E. Craig, Mayor Mike Duggan, and community representatives broke ground on the Detroit Police Department’s new 8th Precinct Station, to be built at 21555 West McNichols Road near Grand River. The $7.3 million facility will house 126 department members and is expected to open this time next year. Jenkins Construction, a De...

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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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Detroit Startup Week Speaker Lineup Released, Includes Bill Ford And Mike Duggan

There’s a lot to be excited about in Detroit’s startup and entrepreneurial scene as of late. The final of three major events just this month, Detroit Startup Week, just released its marquee speaker lineup. They include: * Bill Ford, executive chairman, Ford Motor Company * Jennifer Piepszak, CEO of Chase Business * Danielle Weisberg & Carly Zakin, co-founders, theSkimm * Tami Door, president and CEO, Downtown Denver Partnership and co-founder of Denver Startup Week * Mike Duggan, mayor, c...

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Nine Detroit Small Businesses Receive $500,000 In Latest Motor City Match Round

The third round of Motor City Match has ended, with a combined $500,000 in grant funding given to a variety of Detroit businesses. Funding for the nine small business projects in Detroit neighborhoods ranged from $18,000 to $100,000. Motor City Match was launched last year by Mayor Mike Duggan in partnership with the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation. The goal of Motor City Match is to connect new and expanding businesses with Detroit real estate opportunities and provide them with the fundi...

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Opportunity Fair Designed To Connect Minority Contractors to Projects

The city’s blight removal program, already the largest in the nation, is going to expand by at least 50 percent over the next two years. Additionally, several neighborhood-focused programs have resulted in a rise in home rehabilitation across Detroit. But that increase in the blight removal program and home rehab projects has created a shortage of available demolition and home repair contractors. To help meet this need, Mayor Mike Duggan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and leaders of Detroit’s faith-...

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Detroit High School Graduates To Get Two Years Of Free College Thanks To Detroit Promise

In a boost for Detroit’s education situation, Mayor Mike Duggan announced today that going forward, every Detroit high school graduate will be guaranteed two years of tuition-free college education. Students who qualify for the scholarship can attend one of five community colleges in the area: * Henry Ford Community College * Wayne County Community College District * Schoolcraft College * Macomb Community College * Oakland Community College The scholarship fund is possible because of...

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Grow Detroit's Young Talent Receives Massive Response

Just 48 hours after launch, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s ‘Grow Detroit’s Young Talent’ (GDYT) initiative has secured an astonishing 1,200 registrations for the popular programs upcoming season, according to officials. GDYT is a summer employment initiative, which last year matched 5,600 Detroit youth with a variety of summer a employment opportunities. The program was redeployed by the Mayor on Tuesday with a lofty target of finding 8,000 job for Detroit students this summer, which will be ma...

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Detroit Police Department officers to receive 4% pay increase in tentative agreement

On Monday, Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief James Craig announced that tentative collective bargaining agreements were reached with three unions representing the city’s 2,224 sworn police officers, providing a 4% raise to all sworn officers. The starting pay rate for officers will also get a boost from $31,700 to $36,000. “We’re increasing the salary of starting officers so we can attract more quality recruits and increasing wages overall so that we can keep those quality officers,” said C...

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Motor City Match Grant Program Distributes $500,000 to First Round of Applicants

On Tuesday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the first round of winners who will share a $500,000 grant to help start or grow their businesses in Detroit. The Motor City Match Program connects connects new and expanding businesses with Detroit’s quality real estate opportunities, and provides them with the funding and technical assistance to help them open or grow. Funding for winning businesses ranged from $10,000 to $100,000 and is intended to fill gaps in capital needed for the build o...

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DPS Students Receive Firefighter Training Through New DFD Academy

As Detroit Public Schools prepare for the first day of classes, they have something exciting to celebrate. This fall, a class of 30 Detroit High School students will become the first to be trained as firefighters as part of a collaboration between the Detroit Fire Department and DPS. The two-year pilot program will train students as certified firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMT) by the time they graduate from high school. Historically, the majority of new hires for DFD tend to...