Crain's columnist Bob Allen's tour of Detroit neighborhoods withdeveloper Colin Hubbell and Model D struck a chord with metroDetroiters. Readers shared their enthusiasm for the living in andvisiting the city.
Downtown's all dressed up, with fancy new living spaces, sleek restaurants ready for glitterati and night clubs primed for party people. Crain's Detroit Business columnist Bob Allen says to recognize a true revival in Detroit, however, you need to dig deeper, look closer into the heart of the city and get out into its neighborhoods. There's more going on here than you might think.
There will be traffic and crowds, but Super Bowl Sunday also will be the biggest party of the year, and the best place to experience it is in the city. From the shadow of Ford Field to Corktown, there's no shortage of places to take in the game.
Detroit’s cultural institutions stand to make thousands in profits and increase their national exposure during the Super Bowl period.
Brunch is catching on in Detroit. You can hardly pass a restaurant without seeing a banner advertising a new Sunday brunch. And what better way for Detroiters to spend their lazy Sundays than with perfectly creamed coffee, eggs Benedict, bananas Foster pancakes, chocolate chip crepes and bottomless mimosas and bloody marys.
A few weeks ago, members of the Woodward Avenue Action Association – a group of business and civic leaders from communities along the Woodard corridor – voted to start implementing the suggestions put forth by the IBI Group, a consulting firm that studied the possibilities of rapid transit such as light rail in metro Detroit.
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