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In this week's Restaurant Roundup:
🛒 The Brush Park Bodega opens soon.
🍻 One of downtown Detroit's most beloved bars is set to reopen.
🫓 Olga's favorites are now available nationwide.
The NFL Draft is expected to bring a million people to downtown Detroit.
"We've had a fire or a flood or a leak from above every single month I've been here," said General Manager Mary Zatina, who joined the station in January 2020.
Wayne State University is looking at moving WDET-101.9 FM from its longtime home.
Detroiters voted in favor of allowing recreational cannabis in 2018, but the city is still not benefiting from the state's $1.3 billion industry. A tight-knit group of business owners who have long histories in Detroit and cannabis are among those who want that to change — and soon.
After years of delay, Detroit City Council is considering a revised ordinance to allow recreational cannabis sales in city limits.
Planners and developers have long said downtown Detroit has had a shortage of hotel rooms that has cramped the city's ability to lure major events from the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL and others in recent years.
Until yesterday, apparently.
Even though Detroit is hosting the 2024 National Football League draft, it will not have made a serious dent in what planners and developers have said is a room shortfall to accommodate such affairs.
Anne Parsons, longtime president and CEO of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, died Monday night after a long battle with lung cancer. She was 64.
Anne Parsons, who was named president emeritus of the orchestra in late 2021, shared her diagnosis in November 2018 and had been undergoing treatments since that time.
Start your week off right with this month's episode of Caring for Kids! Host Lawrence J. Burns talks with Shawn Wilson of Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan , Kevin Brown with Detroit Red Wings, and Suzanne Miller Allen of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan about creating incredible initiatives for kids and families.
Larry Burns, President and CEO of The Children's Foundation, talks with Shawn Wilson, President & CEO, The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan; Kevin Brown, Director, Community Impact, Ilitch Sports + Entertainment; and Suzanne Miller Allen, Senior Director, Community Responsibility and Soci...
The Detroit Lions and state officials have long had their sites on landing an NFL draft, which attracts millions of TV viewers and hundreds of thousands of visitors to the host city.
Detroit has been tapped to host the 2024 National Football League Draft, the league announced Monday.Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza will serve as the main staging areas for the three-day event, which has become a staple on the NFL schedule and a major draw for host cities."The Draft has become.....
Oakland Mall in Troy has been sold to Mario Kiezi, a real estate investor and developer. And he says he has big plans for the property:
Buyer Mario Kiezi said he is expecting to request a planned unit development for Oakland Mall, which would allow him to fold several new uses into the site.
A wide variety of vacant commercial buildings in Detroit — from a former strip club to empty schools — are on a new list compiled by Mayor Mike Duggan's administration targeted for demolition or redevelopment.
A wide variety of vacant commercial buildings in Detroit — from a former strip club to empty schools — are on a new list compiled by Mayor Mike Duggan's administration targeted for demolition or redevelopment.Over the fall and winter, Duggan's administration has been putting together.....
A foster care director, a plastics plant manager and an IT employee are among the 12 jurors and four alternates hearing testimony at the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Three name-brand grocery products that might be in your pantry right now have seldom-told Detroit origin stories: La Choy, Mario Olives and Country Crock.
Three name-brand grocery products that might be in your pantry right now have seldom-told Detroit origin stories: La Choy, Mario Olives and Country Crock. They began as the side projects and moonshots of Detroit grocers and businessmen. Two were founded by immigrants. Many started out selling their...
The libraries in a couple of Detroit-area homes have turned heads recently on Zillow Gone Wild — and for good reason.
Barbara Timmons suspects her parents had 10,000 books in their Grosse Ile house. With shelf space at a premium about a decade after they first bought the home, they added a university-style library that soon overflowed, too."I don't think it was anybody's intention to run out of space," she said. .....
From the Joe Louis Greenway to drinking water infrastructure, here's a look at the highlights for businesses, nonprofits and governments in metro Detroit.
After months of negotiations, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican-controlled Legislature came together on a massive outlay of federal and state aid for infrastructure projects and shoring up the state's pandemic-battered unemployment trust fund.Lawmakers approved the bill on…
It's just the beginning of the spring homebuying season, but real estate professionals say the metro Detroit housing market is already as crazy as it was last summer.
Wright Lassiter III, honored Thursday as Crain's Detroit Business' Newsmaker of the Year, had a year full of decisions: He led the first major health system in Michigan that mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for employees and helped bring back the Mackinac Policy Conference. He also sealed a new partnership with Michigan State University that is likely to lead to construction of a new medical school in Detroit.
Royal Oak city staff confirmed that an affiliate of A.F. Jonna Development has submitted plans to tear down the theater on Main Street north of 11 Mile Road and replace it with a five-story mixed-use building.
City staff confirmed that an affiliate of Bloomfield Township-based A.F. Jonna Development LLC has submitted plans to tear down the theater at 118 N. Main St. at 11 Mile Road and replace it with a five-story mixed-use building.
Michigan's roads are deteriorating faster than they're being fixed.
If there's one issue that bedevils Michigan policymakers the most, it's how to pay for fixing the state’s deteriorating roads.
In this week's Restaurant Roundup:
🔧 Ford's Garage is planning to expand in Michigan.
🖼️ The DIA has dropped Great Lakes Coffee as a vendor.
🥖 Zingerman’s Bakehouse has added a new managing partner.
Hot Box Social in Hazel Park has become the state's first licensed recreational cannabis consumption lounge.
Recycling used office furniture. Growing food. Electrifying fleets of service vehicles. Beekeeping.
There are so many ways for companies to become more sustainable — and the people featured on this list are leading the way.
34-year-old Katy McBrady has spent the majority of her career working with beer in some capacity. Now she's set to take over one of the top positions at one of Detroit's most notable breweries.
Katy McBrady has spent the majority of her 13-year career working with beer in some capacity. Now she's set to take over one of the top positions inside one of Detroit's most notable breweries.McBrady will take over as the new president of Atwater Brewery on April 4. The 34-year-old 2009 graduate…
Seven years into owning a business in the bustling Corktown section of Detroit, Batch Brewing Co. founder Stephen Roginson is making moves to become a bigger part of the neighborhood.
Breaking: Jenenne Whitfield, the longtime head of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit and wife of founding artist Tyree Guyton, is departing the organization for a new role in Baltimore, a development that calls into question who will champion the internationally known nonprofit and its art going forward.
Jenenne Whitfield, longtime head of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit and wife of founding artist Tyree Guyton, is departing the organization for a new role in Baltimore.
Family members of two of the former owners have brought back the Strauss Brothers brand as a line of meat spices and rubs, with hopes of expanding into sauces, dressings and eventually a restaurant in Eastern Market.
Rocket is now the Tigers' "exclusive mortgage partner."
A trustee for the federal bankruptcy court is attempting to claw back more than $105 million from the family behind shuttered metro Detroit furniture empire Art Van — and the estate of late founder Art Van Elslander.
The proposed development would have 157 units, dwarfing virtually everything else put before the city for consideration in recent memory.
Oakland Hills Country Club has been awarded a pair of U.S. Open Championships, in 2034 and 2051, allowing the venerable club to once again host one of golf's greatest contests.
Oakland Hills Country Club finally got some good news Tuesday.
The name change is designed to reflect the system's "devotion to partnering with patients, communities and workforce."
Henry Ford Health System announced it would drop system from its name and re-brand as Henry Ford Health. The name change is designed to reflect the system's "devotion to partnering with patients, communities and workforce ..." "Given the collective challenges of the past two years, there has…
The Rocket Companies vice chairman and CEO plans to purchase up to $36 million of the company's stock on the open market, in accordance with Rocket's insider trading policies.
The city estimates it would cost around $850,000 to raze the 1927 building owned by a nonprofit or $20 million to renovate it for something like apartments and ground-floor retail.
A large, old YMCA building with a noticeably absent roof is expected to be torn down once the city of Detroit secures ownership from a nonprofit that has sat on the blighted property for nearly two decades.The city sued the Women's Justice Center over neglect of the Jefferson Avenue site in 2020…
There are many ways for companies to become more sustainable — and the people on our inaugural Notable Leaders in Sustainability list are leading the way.
When the Gordie Howe International Bridge opens in 2024 with a toll-free bicycle and pedestrian lane, the Great Lakes Way will be connected to 2,237 miles of the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail and nearly 17,400 miles of the Trans Canada Trail.
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