Downtown Detroit

Spot yourself: WDIV frames “The Next Big Thing”

Thrive Detroit monthly newspaper set to hit the streets in time for Charter vote

Clean Energy Prize looks to jumpstart more clean-tech start-ups

Digerati’s growth set to spur 2 hires per month over next year

Thanks to you: Next Big Thing was one big blast

From beginning of the night until the end, one word described the scene at downtown's Whitney Building: Wow. Over six hours we celebrated six years of publishing, 300 issues of Model D, and all you emerging social innovators and outside-the-box creatives. Well done, Detroit, well done.  

Guardian Building-based OpTech doubles staff with 60 hires

A Detroit Lions story; a commentary on urban land-use

Where the auction is: Q&A with surreal estate innovator Jerry Paffendorf

Jerry Paffendorf is an idea man. Not the typical idea man with grand ambitions and little execution who thinks his ideas would be great for other people. Paffendorf actually turns his dreams into reality. Jon Zemke asks all the right questions.

Dine, Dash and Drive with MOVE Detroit and GM