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The Transformation Continues

Detroit's not done yet. Here's a look at five major projects that are changing how we view and use the Motor City.

The Year in Mastheads

The subjects are incredibly familiar or intriguingly obscure. Each issue, photographer Dave Krieger delivers an image that makes you see the city differently. Here's a selection from the past year.

Preservation Wayne celebrates 30 years of efforts, looks ahead
Beyond the Rustbelt

Detroit's Art Deco skyscrapers and smokestack skylines don't paint the whole picture. All over town, a different picture of the city is emerging in modern glass and steel facades. Click here to check out photographer Dave Krieger's look at Detroit's newest buildings.

Tourists find plenty to do in revived Detroit

According to the story:From festivals to baseball, fireworks to theater productions, the Motor City calendar has something for every member of the family, every budget and every taste -- because a lot of events include food.

ARISE Detroit coalition seeks volunteers to boost city

A year in planning, a new coalition's effort is going to recruit thousands of volunteers to help make Detroit a better place to live, work and play.

Small businesses to get boost through new city loan program

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick announced Thursday an new loan program for small businesses.

Development’s Unsung Hero

Imagine a Detroit without the casinos, the new stadiums and the RiverWalk. Then take away the smaller projects, the new townhomes, lofts and homes. An unsung hero of urban revitalization, Cathy LaMont has had a hand in just about every major city development. She's built a business on chaning the face of Detroit, and she's found great success doing it.

Detroit’s neighborhood gas stations to be fuel-alternative pioneers

General Motors Corp.'s drive to put ethanol-based fuel in the tanks of more U.S. cars and trucks may transform Detroit's neighborhood gas stations and its drivers into pioneers in the use of the gasoline alternative.

Post-Super Bowl excitement leads to more city tours

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