Detroit by the Numbers
Have you earned a master's at Wayne, flown from Detroit to Bangalore, invented a widget, caught a foreign movie at the DFT or taken a bus ride down Woodward? It all adds up in a new CEOs for Cities report.
TEDC aims to make Detroit prime tourist destination
The Oakland Press wishes success to the Tourism and Economic Development Council's efforts to attract young travelers to Downtown and four other Tourism Destination Districts in Metro Detroit.
Auto show driving plans to expand Cobo
A look at Cobo's proposed expansion and how it could impact localeconomy, and the future of the Auto Show here.
UDM’s dental school move to help boost Core City neighborhood
University of Detroit Mercy's decision to move its dental school to Detroit's Core City neighborhood will boost an area that's already growing.
Ohio mayor takes unique approach to shrinking population
The newly elected mayor of Youngstown, OH is dealing with the loss of half of the city's population by cutting off city services to abandoned areas, creating pocket parks, advicating for renovation rather than new construction and turning over city-owned vacant land to adjacent property owners.
CD explores Detroit’s contributions to ragtime
Techno, Punk, Motown and...Ragtime? A new CD entitled “Ragtime Detroit! Michigan’s Contribution to America’s Original Music,” has just been released by River Raisin Ragtime Revue (R4), a Tecumseh-based band.
NPR talks to Object Orange artists
Object Orange gets more notice, thanks to an interview conducted by WDET's Celeste Headlee and aired on NPR's Day to Day.
MLUI urges local leaders to realize transit boosts development
A group from Grand Rapids is headed to Portland to learn about how transit has electrified the local economy. Transit advocates hope the civic leaders on the trip come away with a real sense of what a necessary ingredient transit is to the redevelopment mix.
Developers to buy ‘air rights’ to build 80 condo units on Book-Cadillac garage
A Detroit development company plans to buy the rights to put 80 units condo units on a parking garage being built as part of the Book Cadillac redevelopment.
