Corktown

Corktown partnership turns into marketing, film and app startups

Four years ago Tim Edwards and Gary Bredow began working together, a partnership that has since spawned three startups in Corktown. The pair now run Edwards Marketing Solutions, Big Bang […]

The Collaborative Group set to give 30 Challenge Detroit grants this year
Publisher’s notebook: Detroit, celluloid city

Lights, camera and plenty of film and video action has publisher Claire Nelson going to screenings at museums and alternative retail spaces or finding the works on YouTube and Vimeo. Good thing for us she collected all the links and put them in this story. Enjoy the show. 

Corktown’s Detroit Dirt grows customer base by 100 percent
Drawing lines for Detroit neighborhood democracy

Detroit's City Council is about to fix the gears of a new kind of democratic government, wind it up and set it in motion, says political blogger Vince Keenan. But the body needs feedback from city residents on the best ways to create a fair, equitable new districting system. Read on and jump into the discussion.

Imported to Detroit: Overcoming culture shock with a little help from new friends

Newcomers to Detroit share many of the same growing pains, says Sarah F. Cox, a 2011 transplant from Brooklyn. But the kindness of strangers pointing people in the right directions helps to overcome the disorientation of being in a strange new land. Just remember, everyone: you're welcome. 

‘9 Businesses’ highlights indie Detroit entrepreneurship
Simply Suzanne granola hires nine as it plans to go national from Corktown
Detroiter turns passion into Corktown start-up, CoolPlacestoLive.com
SimmerD: Local food scene looking back, going forward

Noelle Lothamer spent the balance of 2011 discovering new food and drink businesses in Detroit--and enjoying every morsel. Here is her recap of a great culinary year along with a few sneak previews of more good times to come.

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