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AIA-Detroit
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Step outside to explore Detroit's architecture via its best public spaces — from boulevards with Roaring Twenties grandeur to quintessential urban city squares to sprawling parks and natural areas.
Model D Staff
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
How do you play a tourist in your hometown? What are your favorite
spots to take out-of-town guests to show off the 'D'? What can we do to
attract more visitors? Take a quick survey.
Jonathan Cunningham
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
What's a great city without its poets? There's an urban renaissance going on
in Detroit's poetry community, and slammers and literary types are
coming together to create a community in which the written word — as well as the spoken word — can thrive.
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Thomas Linn — CEO of the state's biggest law firm — looks like your average suit, but he recognizes the value of young hipsters like his kids flocking to cool places like the Magic Stick. Detroit's hipness, namely its thriving music scene, is one of its biggest assets, he says, and that's the kind of strength Detroit needs to capitalize on to continue to push the city's transformation.
Jaime Halaas
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Developers, realtors and house-hunters say the city's
property-tax-break zones can 'make or break' a deal. These Neighborhood
Enterprise Zones are helping to make city living attractive and
affordable, and helping Detroit housing compete with the 'burbs.
Jaime Halaas
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
There's
excitement about what's going to happen on the river, with plans for
new restaurants, places to live and the ever-expanding RiverWalk. Even
before the Bus and Bing break ground on their developments, however,
the city's waterfront is still a draw for good food, drinks and a
wonderful night out — even mid-week.
Bob Allen
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Downtown's all dressed up, with fancy new living spaces, sleek restaurants ready for visiting glitterati and night clubs primed for party people. Crain's Detroit Business columnist Bob Allen says to recognize a true revival in Detroit, however, you need to dig deeper, look closer into the heart of the city and get out into its neighborhoods. There's more going on here than you might think.
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Surely
some people are sick of the Super Bowl hoopla already. It’s just a
game, right? Sure it is, but the impact of the game on metro Detroit
will last long after the VIPs have hopped on the jets back to wherever
they came from. City and development leaders say much of what’s been
started in the name of SBXL has been in the works for a long time, and
the big game just gave them a reason to get the ball rolling a little
faster.
Melissa Giannini
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Brunch
is catching on in Detroit. You can hardly pass a restaurant without
seeing a banner advertising a new Sunday brunch. And what better way
for Detroiters to spend their lazy Sundays than with perfectly creamed
coffee, eggs Benedict, bananas Foster pancakes, chocolate chip crepes
and bottomless mimosas and bloody marys.
Dennis Archambault
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
For more than two decades, Maggie DeSantis has helped to build a community identity on the East Side, bringing vitality and a sense of place as well as commercial and residential development.
Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The Dequindre Cut slices through Detroit. The stretch of land through which trains used to race across the city will soon become a pathway for bikers and pedestrians, linking the Detroit River, the RiverWalk and Tri-Centennial State Park, but also linking Detroiters to nature, arts and each other.
Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The Dequindre Cut slices through Detroit. The stretch of land through which trains used to race across the city will soon become a pathway for bikers and pedestrians, linking the Detroit River, the RiverWalk and Tri-Centennial State Park, but also linking Detroiters to nature, arts and each other.
Carol Brennan
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
When
traditional media outlets didn’t deliver, TheUrbanFlavor started its
own scene, sending out a weekly who-what-where-when on city happenings
geared toward young, urban, African-American professionals. The
newsletter has made Detroiters see a new side of their city.
Jaime Halaas
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Lofts are hot. No doubt about it. They are like urban-living magnets, attracting young professionals and suburbanites back to the city’s core, with their exposed brick walls, historic facades and high ceilings. But what makes a loft a loft and not just a condo or an apartment?
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Iron gates. Cold slabs of granite. Crinkling leaves. Tolling bells. Morbid, maybe. Creepy, sure. Still, a fall cemetery tour is a chance to commune with Detroit’s past, experience its present, and maybe even think about its future.