Downtown Detroit

Dan Gilbert’s entrepreneurial mission gets noticed

We’ve written plenty, and so have others in Detroit, about Dan Gilbert’s voracious appetite for vertical downtown properties. It’s nice when others notice, like MedCity News, based in Cleveland (he […]

Live Downtown, Live Midtown programs not slowing down
Atlantic Cities: Detroit’s “dark euphoria”
D:hive founder issues challenge to Detroit hater Colbert
Growing tech company brings human touch to downtown startup scene

Are You a Human started as a student project in an Ann Arbor incubator before joining a cluster of innovative small businesses in downtown Detroit's suddenly thriving M@dison Building. 

Detroit Restaurant Week returns with refined restaurant list
Detroit Revitalization Fellows: Fascination with the city

In our latest installment in a series of stories on a group of scholars, doers and makers in Detroit here to make a difference, Jay Walljasper profiles, well, a bunch of people with a growing attachment to this fascinating place. 

Detroit Design on a grand scale

In only its second year, the Detroit Design Festival has become one of the city's top must-see, must-do happenings. That sounds great, but organizers Matt Clayson and Melinda Anderson tell Walter Wasacz its longterm potential is even greater.

HuffPost gives us first taste of DDF
Rumors fly sky high about Yamasaki architectural gem

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