Detroit Bus Company launches out of Corktown with downtown loop
The ups and downs of the Detroit's mass transit efforts have not only enough drama to keep people interested but some inspiration for at least one new business. The Detroit Bus Company launched last...
View ArticleLink Detroit project receives $10 million grant for non-motorized transit
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it will provide Link Detroit with $10 million to improve bike and pedestrian connections between the Eastern Market, the Dequindre Cut, Midtown Loop...
View ArticleDeVries & Co. 1887 prepares for Eastern Market Tuesdays
The hustle and bustle of Eastern Market is always apparent on Saturdays. Today though, marks the opening of Eastern Market Tuesdays which will run through Oct. 30. Visitors to the market will have...
View ArticleGetting buzzed about neighborhood coffee? We are
We were inspired, after spending a lot of time at new Great Lakes Cafe for this week's main feature and a photo essay by Marvin Shaouni, to compile a list of other coffee businesses to open in Detroit...
View ArticleMicrofest focus is on Detroit revitalization via the avant garde
This is our kind of way to spend the weekend -- thinking, doing and playing outside the box. The place (or should we say places) to that is at MicroFest Detroit, taking off at various locations this...
View ArticleDetroit Restaurant Week returns with refined restaurant list
Detroit Restaurant Week is coming back around with another round of delicious, fine dining for Detroiters. The bi-annual event will be held between Sept. 28 through Oct. 7 at 17 high-end restaurants...
View ArticleDetroit Design on a grand scale
The buzz for this year's Detroit Design Festival, which begins this week with a stellar kickoff event in one of the city's most spectacular lobbies and ends at an airplane hangar, started building...
View ArticleHuffPost gives us first taste of DDF
Yes, we have a lot of coverage of the Detroit Design Festival this week. But too much is never enough when you have a series of happenings this good. Here's one to clip and save from Kate...
View ArticleChallenge Detroit receives $230K grant from MEDC
Challenge Detroit has received a $230,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp to help the nonprofit to continue to help innovative young people stake a claim in the Motor City. "This will...
View ArticleA city lover’s guide to America’s most underrated city
Let me start this tour of the city with a confession. Despite being a lifelong Midwesterner and veteran travel writer, I avoided Detroit. I expected to be depressed by seeing a once-grand place...
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