Featured Stories
Scott L. Veldhuis
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Detroit Economic Growth Association Finance Committee has
approved up to $283,000 in grants for two new restaurants as well as
headquarters for a development company relocating to the City, under
its Jefferson Avenue Retail Readiness Program. The grants are expected
to leverage more than $600,000 in new private investment along East
Jefferson.
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Will Tamminga
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit and
the Michigan Department of Resources announced today that
construction will begin this summer on two greenways that will connect
the Dequindre Cut Greenway to the Detroit RiverWalk, just east of
downtown Detroit.
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Model D Staff
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
How do we keep our communities intact in the face of a mortgage crisis? Development groups, real estate agents, nonprofits and neighbors will talk about their strategies with Model D and Detroit's WDET radio station at our June 24 event. Come on out and be a part of it.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
White linen service, eclectic bistro menu and a lively bar make Atlas Global Bistro one of our favorite places to nosh and drink up. In its sixth year lighting up Woodward in Midtown, Atlas is now a Cultural Center mainstay.
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Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Skank to that 2 Tone beat, people. Ska music was a byproduct and is now a driver of the local economy in former car town Coventry, England. Model D Radio's Chris McCarus brings us this report in Part II of his series looking at Detroit's connections to this post-industrial city in the UK.
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Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Are out-of-state speculators the only people buying and dilapidated homes the only thing selling in Detroit? Are Detroit real estate agents' fortunes all but lost? Nope.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Four reasons to love Traffic Jam & Snug: Homemade beer, cheese, ice cream, baked goods. It's our stop this week on the Model D TV tour of all that's good in Detroit.
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Chris McCarus
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Michigan’s economy is rooted in the last century. So for clues on how
to modernize, we travel to an even older industrialized place
that's seen the auto industry disappear. Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus
reports from the English Midlands.
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Kelli B. Kavanaugh
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Need a little beach time? Head to the city. Just last weekend, hundreds of people splashed through the Detroit River from Belle Isle's beach as part of the Motor City Triathlon. And lots more people take to the island for its clean and clear H2O and sandy shoreline.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
They say good things take time, and this will. Revising the city's charter could spell great things for Detroit. But what type of change will come of it, and who will make those decisions? Voters, a lot of that is up to you.
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Nicole Rupersburg
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Nicole Rupersburg had a map, a couple friends, a few bucks and a noble mission. She hit W. Vernor looking for the fabled taco trucks and found a Detroit version of the L.A. carne asada cart scene, and had something of a mythical epicurean experience along the way.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Hamtramck is not lacking in bars, and this week we visit one of the newer entries into the scene -- THC on Jos. Campau -- in this Model D TV clip.
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Terry Parris Jr. and Elaine Labalme
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Well, here we are again. Wings vs. Penguins for the Stanley Cup. Time to check in with our friends -- or, in these times, frenemies -- at Pop City in Pittsburgh and see if they've got anything to cheer about. (Probably not the scores of games 1 and 2. Ha ha.)
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Chris McCarus, Marvin Shaouni and Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Why do you stay? What will keep you here? When GLUE asked the question and threw a party in Midtown, Detroit, we stayed around for the answers. Listen, watch and learn.
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Model D Staff
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
We've been talking a lot about biking the city lately (like all of last month's speaker series). So how about 18 miles of just doing it? Hit the city streets with Model D at the Colin Hubbell Memorial Bike Ride on June 20.
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