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The Station Map For MoGo, Detroit's Bike Share, Is Now Up. Let's Take A Look.

Detroit’s bike sharing system has been a much-talked about addition to greater downtown Detroit’s transportation options. We’ve walked through how to use the system before. It’s a public bike sharing system where you pay by the half hour (a variety of other passes are available) to use a bike to get around the downtown area. Today the map went live ahead of the system’s official launch on Tuesday, May 23. It reveals that the system will reach as far west as Clark Park, as far east as West Vi...

Detroit Foundation Hotel

Inside The Historic Detroit Fire Department Headquarters That Found New Life As A Hotel

For the past few years I have been patiently waiting for the Detroit Foundation Hotel to open. That wait is finally over. The former Detroit Fire Department Headquarters went through extensive renovations to become a hotel. The building we’re going to talk about today was built in 1929, but this plot of land, according to Historic Detroit, had consistently housed fire equipment from 1840 until the Detroit Fire Department moved out in 2013. The location right across the street from Cobo Cen...

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The Detroit Pistons Return To Design Sanity With Their New Retro Logo

After decades of graphic tomfoolery, the Detroit Pistons returned to design sanity with the official revelation of their new (old?) logo today. The Pistons basketball team has had decades of logo nonsense. For instance, in 1947, they had this doozy which was like a angry Michelin Man made of oil cans. The “Z” is for their founding owner, Fred Zollner. Imagine the children’s faces if this was the mascot today. Then, for decades in Detroit from 1957 until the late 1970s, the Detroit Pistons...

Hill Harper

Actor Hill Harper Buys A Downtown Coffee Shop And A Home In Detroit

Detroit has a new addition to the roster of celebrities in and around the city. Actor Hill Harper bought Roasting Plant Coffee in downtown Detroit, just off of Campus Martius. He also bought a home in a Detroit neighborhood. That’s the coffee shop with the clear plastic pipes and the “Javabot.” The downtown Detroit location opened in 2013. Roasting Plant Coffee has five locations including the Detroit one at 660 Woodward. Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul have them at their airports, and New Y...

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How Long Will You Live? Research Shows Sizable Inequality In Michigan And Metro Detroit

Average life expectancy at birth varies in Michigan by nearly eight years. That’s one of many results from a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle published in the JAMA Internal Medicine, where the authors calculated life expectancy by county from 1980 to 2014. It showed disparities in life expectancy are growing across the nation. “Looking at life expectancy on a national level masks the massive differences that exist at the loc...

Free RidesQLINE

The QLINE Steetcar Is Adding A Week Of Free Rides

Although numbers won’t be out until next week, anecdotal evidence has been that the QLINE has been very busy since it launched for the public on Friday. Two of our writers used the QLINE to get to the office Friday and come back and it was still packed in the evening; on Saturday, doing interviews, almost every train for the couple of hours we were out was visually full. There have been some initial issues. The unexpectedly high ridership has caused delays. Two of the streetcars were pulled...

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City Year's Red Jacket Gala Raises $700,000 To Expand Their Program Into Three More Detroit Schools

Last night more than 700 people gathered at Cobo Center to attend the City Year Detroit’s Red Jacket Gala. The money raised from the gala will help City Year improve the educational outcomes of students in Detroit. City Year Detroit is part of the national City Year program. Locally, it is currently made up of 71 AmeriCorps members that have been selected to go into seven elementary and middle schools in Detroit. These seven schools are feeder schools to the four high schools that make...

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Is An Exodus Of Detroit Teachers On The Horizon?

Stefanie Kovaleski loves teaching kindergarten at Detroit’s Bethune Elementary-Middle School. “I love this building. I love the kids in it,” she said as she doled out hugs and high-fives to her young students while they lined up to get their backpacks at dismissal. “I love that I have autonomy and that I’m treated with professionalism here.” She hopes to stay in her classroom and remain a part of her students’ lives, she said, but she’s actively talking to banks and credit unions about worki...

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Two Soon To Open Metro Detroit Fun Destinations Get Signage

Progress is coming along at two different soon to be open businesses in the form of signage. In downtown Detroit, Ready Player One is getting ready to serve patrons at their video game arcade and bar near Greektown. Those doors above are on theme, for sure. Their story is here. It’s on the same block but on the other side of Loco’s, Niki’s, and Bouzouki. Meanwhile, up in Ferndale… Detroit Fleat is getting ready to serve eats and booze as part of their regular home for foo...

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Improve Detroit App Now Lets You Report Park Problems

Two years ago, the city of Detroit launched their Improve Detroit App. According to city officials, over the past two years it has helped to resolve more than 70,000 issues ranging from potholes to illegal dumping and clogged street drains. This week they’ve added new functionality with a series of park-related categories of issues residents can report. They include damaged park equipment, park restroom issues, mowing needed, graffiti, and if trash pickup is needed The city says that the...

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PODCAST: Airbnb And The Sharing Economy Is Having A Growing Impact On Detroit

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Detroit Cultivated Brings Back un.Bride.led For A Second Year On May 18

Planning a wedding can be extremely stressful, especially after the “oh my God I’m getting married” phase wears off. Between trying to find the perfect location, dress, caterer, florist, officiant, and musicians it can get overwhelming. That is where event planner Haley Lertola from Detroit Cultivated comes in. She has organized a wedding reception called un.Bride.led Reverie for engaged couples, families, and friends. They can come experience an evening filled with great food, drinks,...

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12 Tips For Riding The QLINE

After years of planning, construction and testing the QLINE is a real thing. We were able to hop on the QLINE for a preview of the service, and I thought I’d share some tips and answers to questions we got during a Facebook live stream we did. Here are our twelve tips for riding the rails up and down Woodward. 1. The QLINE streetcars differ from a bus in a number of ways The QLINE streetcars need to travel along the rail that has been built along Woodward. They also at some intersection...

Detroit Bike Share

MoGo Bike Share Stations Begin To Appear In Detroit

Detroit’s bike share program, details of which were announced last month, is moving quickly to get 43 bike share stations deployed around greater downtown Detroit. Their goal is to get it done in time for their target launch window of the end of May. The first station was installed at One Ford Place near Techtown. We spotted one going into the next to the Penobscot. A reader snapped this photo outside of the Fisher Building. We also saw one at Woodward and Peterboro while dr...

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New $400,000 Esplanade In Downtown Detroit Opens To The Public Friday

Detroit’s getting a new walkway and green space thanks to a $400,000 investment from Quicken Loans. It’s called an esplanade, defined basically as a walkway that either is in the median of a boulevard or near the seashore. There will be public art installations, pedestrian walkways, food trucks, comfortable seating and furniture, play cubes, plantings, and live entertainment. The meadow-themed walkway design is anchored by a series of 12 foot tall lit archways that lead to the new QLINE stat...

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Fear Of Second Giant Sinkhole In Macomb County Leads To Emergency Sewer Repair

Three quarters of a mile of large, 11-foot sewer interceptor under 15 Mile road was found to be in imminent danger of collapse, according to Macomb County Public Works office. This is a section of pipe immediately east of the sinkhole on 15 Mile Road that developed on Christmas Eve of 2016. To keep that portion of sewer line that serves half a million Macomb residents from meeting the same fate as one that created a giant sinkhole less than a year ago, construction crews in Fraser are taking...

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Owners of Big Rock Chophouse, Griffin Claw And Clubhouse BFD To Open Restaurant In New Downtown Park

There’s a park rising on the west side of downtown Detroit at Cass and Grand River, and today we have more information on the restaurant space that’s going to go in it. DTE Energy, who owns and is constructing the new public access park, announced it has partnered with restaurateurs Norm and Bonnie LePage to operate the restaurant. The restaurant, currently under construction, will open this fall and will be the first restaurant in the city for the LePages who also own Clubhouse BFD in Roche...

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Detroit's Schools Are Full Of Empty Classrooms. Can They Find A Way To Keep The Buildings Open?

When Pershing High School opened in 1930, it was designed to serve more than 2,200 students in what was then a fast-growing part of the city’s east side. Today, the school serves just 314 kids. That means Pershing is more than 85 percent empty. It’s a similar story at Southeastern High School, Davis Aerospace High School and scores of other schools across the city that now serve just a fraction of the students they were designed to educate. Some schools, like the Douglass Academy for Young...

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