Detroit’s renewal goes beyond Super Bowl dreams

Despite the city’s financial woes and challenges that mirror hurricane-hit New Orleans, signs of revitalization are all over Detroit. Cranes and scaffolding dot downtown. Parks, lofts, condos, and other development are popping up everywhere. And the city’s spirit is lifting, too.

Detroit Science Center launches SPACE exhibit

The largest space exhibit to tour in history opens Nov. 5 in Detroit.

Book-Cadillac renovation plans call for 455 hotel rooms, 66 condos

A Cleveland developer has officially announced plans for the $176 million renovation of the shuttered, landmark Book-Cadillac Hotel, which would reopen with about 455 hotel rooms and 66 condos in spring 2008.

House OKs bill to cut Detroit homestead millage rate

The state House on Thursday unanimously approved three bills amending the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Act to allow Detroit and other Michigan communities to cut taxes for qualifying residents.

$15 million Detroit Transportation Center to be named after Rosa Parks

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Wednesday announced that the new downtown Detroit transportation center would be named in honor of Rosa Parks.

Behind the Bricks: Lofts Exposed

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?

Day of the Dead Comes Alive

El Dia de los Muertos – or Day of the Dead — is becoming a big deal in Mexicantown. Thousands of visitors – including more than 600 schoolchildren – will come by the busload to see the vibrant displays and to buy skulls made of sugar, breads shaped like bones and countless other delights made especially for the traditional two-day celebration of the dead.

Third phase of Woodward streetscape project breaks ground in Midtown

Businesses, nonprofits offered discounts on Super Bowl XL decor