Downtown Detroit

Bundled finds success making gift baskets from Michigan’s best products

Bundled finds the best products in Michigan and offers to bundle them into themed and customized gift boxes for men, women, and babies.

Forward Cities
Detroitists wanted: Challenge Detroit, DTX, NextEnergy seek applicants

Several of the Motor City's top fellowship programs and incubators are currently taking applications, including Challenge Detroit, TechTown's DTX Launch Detroit, and NextEnergy.

Detroit Labs office
Apprentice program keeps talent pipeline gushing at Detroit Labs

Detroit Labs has run three classes of its apprentice program, which have resulted in 20 new hires in each of the first two and 11 hires in the most recent.

Cobo Center
Cobo Square to open this spring, cap convention center renovations

Art exhibits, exercise and yoga sessions, and biergartens are just some of the programming planned for the space that is set to open this spring.

Detroit redevelopment work leads to growth for Giffels Webster

The downtown Detroit-based firm has watched its revenue grow by up to 40 percent over the last five years, including a 15 percent jump over the last year.

Fast-growing tech firm QStride moves into One Woodward Avenue
Brian Rebain
Ruins to riches: Brian Rebain and the architecture of revival

Behind every great historic restoration project, there's a great architect. In the case of many of downtown's most prominent buildings, that person is Brian Rebain.

Zarkpa's co-founders Tracy Garley and Courtney Sims
Downtown loses clothing boutique to North End

Formerly located in the Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley neighborhood, Zarkpa's left downtown because of rising rents. Unfazed, the boutique is optimistic about its future in the North End.

Famed Pinkerton detective agency opens downtown Detroit office

The famed Pinkerton detective agency has opened an office in downtown Detroit that will serve as the headquarters for its Michigan operations.

An Offworld Arcade pop-up at Checker Bar
Gaming goes Offworld in Detroit

Don Behm started his vintage arcade business, Offworld, by tinkering with classic games in his garage. 

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