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Nine Detroit Bus Route Changes Are Coming In September, DDOT Holding Series Of Meetings To Announce Them

The Detroit Department of Transportation is holding three meetings in September to announce service changes to nine routes starting September 2, 2017. The meetings will allow riders an opportunity to be informed on the bus routes that will be changing beginning in September, pickup new bus schedules and ask any questions they may have for DDOT staff members. Here’s when and where the meetings will be held: * Tuesday, August, 29th, from 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. — Oakland County Community College,...

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Plans For Monroe Block Suggest Density, Modernism Coming To Detroit

There’s big downtown Detroit development news — and to no one’s surprise, Dan Gilbert is involved — as Bedrock Detroit plans an $800 million new mixed-use development anchored by a 35-story tower overlooking Campus Martius. So far as I can tell from the renderings, plans for the Monroe Block project call for building two towers and other buildings on two irregularly shaped blocks bordered by Monroe Avenue, Bates and Randolph streets, and Cadillac Square. The blocks today are mostly either su...

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Whole Foods Dropping Prices Now That They're Tied Up With Amazon, And Detroit Is No Exception

A piece of news that has rocked the grocery world is the acquisition of Whole Foods by online retail giant Amazon for $13.7 billion. There are reports nationally of cuts as much as 43% – but what about here in Detroit? After all, we’re not at New York City prices. If Whole Foods is successful at shaking off its “Whole Paycheck” nickname and is able to keep up a degree of quality, being backed by Amazon and their low profit margin culture, it might be a complete game changer when it comes to...

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VIDEO: CNN Profiles Detroit's Tiny Houses And The Second Chance They Can Give

A development that has caught national attention like few others has been the tiny houses created by Cass Community Social Services. We have written them up before here when they were first announced as well as were the first to spot the additional construction of what seems to be a popular program. The idea is that the small homes that rent for about $1 a square foot per month provide an option for independence and eventually home ownership in a city where rising rents are becoming a real t...

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Refugee Couple Wins $50k To Start Business In Detroit

On the rooftop of one of Detroit’s swankiest loft buildings – the space the party was thrown in currently is listing for $1.4 million – Hatch Detroit announced that the winner of their seventh annual contest was Baobob Fare. Baobob Fare idea is a a restaurant, market and juice bar that plans to offer prepared menu items, groceries, juices and other retail products unique to East Africa. The people behind the idea are a married refugee couple from Burundi, Nadia Nijimbere and Hamissi Mamba...

New Protected Bike Lanes Taking Shape on Cass Avenue

If you’ve been on Cass Avenue lately, you might’ve seen some kiosks being installed along the sidewalks in a few places. Or the smooth new blacktop road surface. They’re part of larger plans to bring protected bike lanes to the street, from West Grand Boulevard in the New Center all the way to Lafayette near the riverfront downtown. Two kiosks have been installed — one in front of Old Main, on the Wayne State campus, and the other near the Rosa Parks Transit Center downtown. “It’s gon...

300+ People In Need In Detroit Get Free Haircuts

Today approximately 300 low income and homeless people were treated to a free shampoo and haircut at the Cass Community Social Services (Cass). The event was held in partnership between Cass and Paul Mitchell The School Michigan. This is the third year that the PMTS4Change has taken place. More than 20 stylists from the school at the event to give shampoos, haircuts, and hair braiding to people in the community. “This day is about so much more than just shampoos and haircuts by professiona...

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Here Are The Top 10 Public High Schools With The Best Teachers In Metro Detroit

The education ratings site Niche.com has come out with their top teachers in Michigan, and many of those schools are in Metro Detroit. For the purposes of this post, we’re going to call Metro Detroit the tri-county area of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties. The data speaks directly to public schools. They came to their rankings through a combination of publicly available data as well as reviews by their Niche.com site users. In order of importance, Niche used the factors of Academics, Pa...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of August 25-27

I still can’t believe that this is the last weekend of August. There is plenty of fun things to do this weekend, so go out and have fun. Garlic & Music Festival This three day festival is going to be great for those of us who love garlic. If you’re a vampire or on a first date maybe stay away from Campus Maritus. Bring your appetite because there will be plenty of garlicky foods to choose from. There will be two stages with live music performances, a kid zone with bounce houses, and...

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Comcast's Low Income $9.95 Internet Program Expands To Include Seniors In Detroit

We are currently in the digital age, however there is still a huge gap between those who have access to internet and those who don’t. At last count, 39% of households in Detroit do not have internet of any kind. And if you don’t have internet and know how to use it, you don’t have a shot at moving up in the modern world. Comcast’s Internet Essentials has been providing low-income households the opportunity to sign up for internet for $9.95 a month. It’s found a measure of success compared to...

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"Katoi" Will Be Renamed "Takoi" In Response To Controversy, Re-Opens August 28

Amid a naming controversy that was brought into the open in a piece by the Metro Times, the award-winning Katoi is renaming itself “Takoi.” The shorthand version of the issue is that Katoi – a modified version of the Thai word kathoey – is an insult to Thai transgender people, and various groups have been calling for them to change their name. Tom Perkins at the MT digs into the reasoning behind why the word is offensive with more depth, and we’ll just link it here as it’s worth a read if yo...

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Meet The 12 Restaurants In Metro Detroit's First Black Restaurant Week

Metro Detroit has our fair share of restaurant weeks throughout the year. Restaurant weeks are used to give diners an opportunity to try restaurants that they might have thought to try, often with a reduced price or specials to bring folks in the door. The newest restaurant week is the Metro Detroit Black Restaurant Week is being organized by BlackMetroEats.com and TheStrangeRootsBox. The week long event began on Monday, August 21 and runs through this Sunday, August 27. The Metro Detroit...

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Duggan Teases "We're Very Close" On Deal To Reduce Car Insurance Rates

At a midday press and community event at the Williams Recreation Center to talk about the expansion of affordable internet, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan dropped a teaser around progress in regard to car insurance reform. For context, Detroit, along with the state of Michigan, has the highest car insurance rates in the nation (here’s an explainer as to why). It’s not uncommon for residents to pay more than $400 a month for basic, no-fault auto insurance. “I have a meeting back at the office wi...

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Detroit Adds 8 Trucks That Suck To Clean Catch Basins, Reduce Street Flooding

Normally when you say something “sucks,” it’s bad. In this case, sucking is a good thing. Today the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department rolled out eight new Vactor Trucks at a cost of $3.9 million. The fleet, with this addition, has been tripled to twelve trucks. They will be put to work cleaning out 30,000 catch basins over the next , with the goal of reducing street flooding across the city. When the water doesn’t drain away properly, it has to go somewhere. The chronic street flooding...

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REPORT: Gordie Howe Bridge To Be Delayed Another Year

A much awaited new link to Canada, the Gordie Howe Bridge, won’t be complete until at least 2023. That’s according to a report in the Windsor Star. The report outlines some key reasons for delay, including the new community benefits requirements with the city of Detroit and the the addition of separated pedestrian and bike lanes. These items were not in the original specifications. Instead of bids being due this fall of this year, the submission date has been pushed off until summer of n...

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Detroit's Afrofuturist Mayoral Candidate Ingrid LaFleur Appears On "This American Life"

Ingrid LaFleur didn’t make it to the mayoral primary. In fact, she wasn’t actually on the ballot and had to be written in, where she pulled less than one percent of the vote. But that hasn’t stopped her from getting a lot of media attention. She was featured on the front page of the Metro Times, but now, the giant public radio program and podcast This American Life that was focused on the concept of Afrofuturism. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a definition, per Wikipedia – although...

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Here’s Why Kate Upton Was Working Out In Detroit With Marines Today

We are used to seeing Justin Verlander and his Tiger teammates take the field for games, while the wives cheer them on. However, today the tables were turned when Verlander’s fiancé Kate Upton did a full Marine workout next to the football field at Wayne State University, with Verlander and their dog Harley, watching. Upton was joined by five other Tiger wives, Allison Bell, Kelsey Fulmer, Janelle Presley, Blanca Vizquel, and Kristin Wilson. The workout was lead by Gunnery Sergean...

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PODCAST: Haircuts, Beards And Shop Talk With Chad And Ryan Of Detroit Barbers

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