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Tequila-Mezcal Bar Toma Detroit Wins $50,000 Hatch Prize

Last night on the rooftop of the Madison Building, Toma Detroit, the aspiring tequila and mezcal bar and restaurant, won this year’s Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest. The owners will receive $50,000 from Comerica Bank, and more than $200,000 in support services like public relations, IT and legal counsel. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges after a round of public pitches. Our Shianne Nocerini was at the Hatch Off last night and caught up with co-owner José Maldonado. Listen to t...

LISTEN: Detroit City FC's Ambitions & Fieldhouse Updates With Sean Mann, CEO

If you’re a regular listener of the Daily Detroit podcast, you know that Detroit City FC recently completed its 2018 season on a bit of a disappointing note, missing the NPSL playoffs after going all the way to the semifinals last year. Now the team’s owners are renewing their push to join a professional soccer league, possibly forming a new league with several other teams. I recently spoke with Sean Mann, the team’s CEO and a co-owner, to find out more. BTW, Here’s a video of the constru...

Documentary On Legendary Detroit Bar, The Lindell AC, Airs Thursday

Fans of Detroit watering holes of yore, take note: A documentary about the legendary Lindell AC sports bar makes its TV debut Thursday night on Detroit Public Television. It’s called “Meet Me At the Lindell: The Story of America’s First Sports Bar.” The 44-minute documentary from director Jason Danieliwicz first screened in 2017 at the Freep Film Festival. The Lindell AC was famous for many reasons, including for being a place where professional athletes showed up and mingled with common...

LISTEN: Get To Know Your 4 Hatch Detroit Finalists Before You Vote

The Comerica Hatch Detroit Contest Presented by Bedrock is down to its four finalists: * Neighborhood Grocery * Paradise Natural Foods * Slyde * Toma Detroit They’re competing for a $50,000 prize from Comerica Bank and $200,000 worth of pro-bono services from Hatch Detroit and its partners. Representatives from each of the four startup business finalists joined Sven Gustafson today in the studio to talk about their proposals alongside Vittoria Katanski, Hatch Detroit’s executive direc...

Is There An Auto Bubble Coming? A Conversation With Joe Berish, Analyst

Is there a bubble brewing in the car business? Sven’s guest — Joe Berish, an analyst with the automotive consulting firm Oliver Wyman — says that rising subprime auto loans, rising interest rates and increasing prices for car parts add up to spell warning signs. That’s even before we start talking about President Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported cars. Listen to the conversation from our Daily Detroit podcast in the player above. Don’t miss another episode and subscribe free in your po...

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Remembering Aretha Franklin With Evrod Cassimy, Marsha Music, Dan Austin & Detroiters

The Queen of Soul dies, and a city mourns

$250,000 Grants Will Go To Detroit, Ferndale For Skate Parks From Tony Hawk Foundation

Ferndale and Detroit got some good news when they learned they were the recipients of $250,000 matching grants from the Tony Hawk Foundation and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to build free public skateparks. Ferndale plans to build its skatepark at Wilson Park, while Detroit’s will be built at Riverside Park, which was the subject of a land swap deal three years ago with the Moroun family, owners of the Ambassador Bridge, which lies just to the east. It will be Ferndale’s first publi...

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On Aug. 7, Vote ‘Yes’ To Support SMART Bus Service

The Detroit region already squandered the latest, best opportunity to invest in our region and sharpen our economic competitiveness, thanks to the intransigence of Oakland and Macomb Counties in stonewalling the latest Regional Transit Authority plan. The refusal of Oakland and Macomb representatives to simply approve putting the proposal before voters this year means we’ll likely have to wait at least two more years to try and resurrect the issue yet again after voters narrowly rejected a sim...

LISTEN: Meet Detroit City Lacrosse w/ Christianne Sims Malone

One of North America’s oldest sports is lacrosse. The sport, a creation of Native Americans and First Nations, has seen a resurgence as of late. Among that? A program for youth. So on the Daily Detroit News Byte, Sven interviewed Christianne Sims Malone. She’s the founder of Detroit City Lacrosse. From their website: Detroit City Lacrosse is a citywide youth organization dedicated to developing student athletes of character and integrity who will serve as positive members of the communi...

News Byte Podcast Episode 100: Detroit Development-A-Palooza

Somehow, we made it to 100 episodes! We’ve got a lot of real estate development news to go through on this episode of the podcast recorded on July 26, 2018. Our stories: Detroit will get a brand-new skyscraper. Midland-based Chemical Bank says it plans to relocate its headquarters and more than 500 executives and employees to downtown Detroit. There, it plans to build a 20-story building at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Elizabeth Street on the site of a surface parking lot next to the...

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LISTEN: Kevin Allison of Risk! Headlines Refreshed Happy Hour Podcast

Warning: Episode contains salty language. Not many F-bombs, but F-bombs nonetheless. Friends, we’re back! After a brief hiatus, the Daily Detroit Happy Hour returns with a fresh new episode. Truth be told, we’ve been taking some time to refocus the show and what we’re about. So you’ll notice some new things. In the interests of offering more variety, we’ll be doing more and shorter segments, which was always a goal anyway, at a slightly faster pace. We’ll still feature great interviews wi...

CONFIRMED: MoGo Bike Share Will Expand To Livernois 'Avenue Of Fashion' In Detroit

As we reported last week, Detroit’s MoGo bike share program plans to expand next spring to new Detroit neighborhoods and five inner-ring suburbs. And we can now confirm that that Detroit neighborhood is the Livernois “Avenue of Fashion” district between McNichols and Eight Mile, where it will join up with Ferndale, another participating community. We had Lisa Nuszkowski, founder and executive director of MoGo, and Justin Lyons, the city of Ferndale’s planning manager, on the Daily Detroit N...

PODCAST: A Retractable Roof For Ford Field? Clutch And Throttle Motorcycle Shop Opening In Detroit & More

Friends, we have returned from a quick weekend getaway — Jer went up to Mackinac Island, while Sven drove down to Columbus, Ohio for a Courtney Barnett show — and are back with a fresh new show. And it’s our first one recorded in the new Podcast Detroit studio inside the Detroit Shipping Company, which had its soft open on Friday and remains, uh, softly open? In today’s show, we discuss: * Ford Field’s future retractable roof? * The future of the Belle Isle Grand Prix * Detroit mis...

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Watch A Walking Tour Of The New Detroit Shipping Company

Today is the soft opening for the Detroit Shipping Company, the new food court/biergarden/art gallery/event space made out of shipping containers in Midtown the lower Cass Corridor. While it doesn’t open for real until July 30, we got a chance to check it out during a VIP preview party this week, and we shot this video to show you around. The facility has six restaurants, two full-service bars, a Falling Down Beer Co. microbar, a combination coffee shop/ice cream parlor, popup retail space a...

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Developers Demolish Pharmacy For New 7.Liv Project at 7 Mile and Livernois

Activity at the site of the $8 million 7.Liv mixed-use development has entered a new phase with the demolition of a former pharmacy next to the long-vacant B. Siegel Department Store on the corner of 7 Mile and Livernois on Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion. The corner has been busy for months, with crews working on underground infrastructure having dug up the entire corner. Today we were driving past on the way to grab lunch up the street when we noticed the entire former Revco pharmacy structure o...

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LISTEN: New Cass-Henry Historic District With Eric Kehoe, MoGo Expansion, Red Bull Arts Detroit, & Amazon Hiring

On today’s show, we dive into yesterday’s late-breaking news about Detroit City Council’s vote to establish the new Cass-Henry Historic District in the shadow of Little Caesars Arena. The district includes two buildings owned by the Ilitch family that they’ve proposed to demolish as part of the District Detroit project. We speak with Eric Kehoe, president of the board of directors at Preservation Detroit, about the significance of making it a historic district and what it means for those...

Ilitch Family Makes Deadline To Fix Code Violations On Two Blighted Properties On Cass Avenue

Crews were on the scene today making repairs at two long-blighted properties owned by the Ilitch family on Cass Avenue in Detroit. Monday was the deadline to fix code violations at the former Hotel Ansonia and the former Atlanta Apartments. Both buildings have long been without windows and are unsecured. The city flagged the violations in May and has reportedly twice extended the deadline for the Ilitches to come into compliance. No fines have been issued. The two buildings are also among...

Bike Ride Fundraiser This Weekend For Joe Louis Greenway Rail-To-Trail Loop

The Detroit Greenways Coalition will hold a group bike ride Sunday to create awareness and raise money to build a 26-mile rail-to-trail greenway loop in the city. The Joe Louis Greenway is a proposed pedestrian loop through Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. Previously known as the Inner Circle, it’s currently a network of abandoned rail lines and local streets. But the Joe Louis Greenway would also incorporate the Dequindre Cut, Detroit RiverWalk, and other existing greenways. The D...