Restaurant and bar development marches on despite some recent closings

Although the recent closures of Oslo and Currents have some downtown-watchers worried, there are plenty of other bar and restaurant developments underway - including Asian Village, Liquid Lounge in Brush Park and Gadjo Dilo in Corktown.

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Even as the city overall lost 10,000 people last year, the core of Detroit, which includes the central business district, Midtown, Corktown and southwest Detroit, gained population.

The average household incomes of new residents in downtown Detroit is $59,300, which is 33 percent higher than an estimate based on 2000 Census data, according to a recent University of Michigan study.

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