Metro Detroiters say they want well-planned, regional mass transit
More than 390,000 people using the Park-and-Ride shuttle service during Super Bowl week showed regional leaders that mass transit could work in Detroit.
Highland Park attracting news businesses, building new homes
The City of Highland Park has attracted new businesses and is adding moderately priced homes to bring in more moderate- and middle-income residents.
Ann Arbor and surrounding cities need to care about Detroit
Cities surrounding Detroit, no matter how well-off they may be, are inherently dependent of the successes of region’s core city.
Detroit’s UD-Mercy, Wayne State part of consortium for national transportation research
University of Detroit Mercy will lead four other universities, including Wayne State, that have been awarded a $2 million federal grant to address critical transportation issues.
NextEnergy to bring hydrogen fueling station to TechTown
NextEnergy is collaborating with BP to advance hydrogen fuel initiatives in Michigan by adding a new station in TechTown.
Penske ready to keep pushing forward
Having guided Detroit to its successful hosting of Super Bowl XL, business leader and racing legend Roger Penske promised Wednesday to stick around to help keep the city’s redevelopment effort going.
The Urban Design Lab
For three architecture schools — University of Detroit Mercy, Lawrence Technological Institute and University of Michigan — Detroit is their laboratory. The schools' design studios are having an impact on the city – project by project, neighborhood by neighborhood. In turn, the researchers are rethinking the term "urban," and getting an alternative view of the practice of architecture.
555/4731: Making Space to Create
Inside buildings that look llike relics from Detroit's industrial past, Ric Geyer has helped to carve out havens for micro-communities of like-minded artists, musicians and entrepreneurs.
