Featured Stories
Olga Stella, DEGC
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Has your company gotten our call yet? If it's one of Detroit's largest 150 manufacturers, it likely has – or will soon. DEGC's business retention staff expects to talk to every one of those companies in the next few months – and a lot of other businesses as well. If it's a company that could be a good fit for a downtown Detroit office building or industrial area, DEGC's business attraction staff is spreading the facts about why a Detroit location should be on your list.
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Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
W Industries, a premier value-added fabricator of manufactured products
ranging from defense, aerospace, automotive and industrial sector OEM's
is investing $18.6 million in a 200,000-square-foot expansion at its
manufacturing and headquarters location in the City of Detroit.
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Jon Zemke
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
New law allows developers to stack both state
and federal tax credits so they add up to 40 percent of the
project's total cost, creating a huge potential impact on stimulating redevelopment of city's historic building stock.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
It's no accident this week's Blowout is in Hamtramck, where Irish and Polish saloon keepers once made the vibrant city within a city the most celebrated drinking town -- per capita -- in the world. Let's raise a glass to that and keep the pours coming.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Once an abandoned car wash, hotel and liquor store, Mid-Med Lofts is now a cluster of office, residential and retail that works, and works well. Watch and learn in this video clip from Tom Hendrickson.
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Megan Pennefather
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Nonprofit group, which has planted about 60,000 trees since it was founded in 1989, hopes to reforest most of Detroit.
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Lucy Ament
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Owner Zana Smith opened the eye-catching specialty boutique offering an array of clothing, books and music in Harmonie Park in 1984. The secret of her success? She's never been afraid to break out a new, exciting brand.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
El Barzon is a locally owned and operated dining hot spot in Southwest Detroit specializing in Mexican and Italian dishes. This unique restaurant makes its own salsa and tortillas as well as an entire range of authentic specialties.Video producer/director
Tom Hendrickson has all the delectable visual details in this Model D TV clip.
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Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Model D's Speaker Series is Tuesday, Feb. 17 and is all about finding the best location for your new biz. Sign up now. Space is limited.
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Ashley Woods
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
There's great energy in Midtown, says Nora Madden. And harnessing energy is her business. In the shadow of the Detroit Medical Center, she's set up shop practicing acupuncture with a community sensibility.
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Rodd Monts
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Southwest Solutions is the talk of the town. From development projects to an art gallery to its heavy roster of social services, the organization is impressing Detroiters, changing the face of a neighborhood and changing people's lives.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Bringing design to everyone, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert share their ideas and creativity with the general public from their Hamtramck storefront. And yes, they are doing just fine. Thanks for asking.
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Walter Wasacz
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Torch With a Twist turns two this week and the red hot celebration is at Cliff
Bell's. Songs, fire breathing, dancing (belly and burlesque) -- it's a
show like no other.
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Terry Parris Jr.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Luis Croquer saw beauty in Detroit before the New Yorker even got here. Now he's bringing his own vision of art and beauty to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as its new director.
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Tom Hendrickson
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
This week we take look inside the YMCA downtown, with its shiny new equipment, workout areas and many amenities.
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