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Michigan Is The Most Expensive State In The Nation To Own A Car, Says Report

If you wait a few minutes, the weather might change in Michigan, but each year, Michigan continues to be the most expensive in the nation to own a car. The 2017 ranking by GoBankingRates dives into the annual costs for car ownership in Michigan, and they’re a whopping $4,796.56 higher over three years than the national average. In Michigan, they estimate it costs $16,502.77 over three years to take care of the basic taxes and registration, maintain and insure your car. Last year Michigan a...

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Detroiters Renewed By Comedy Central, Gets A Second Season

It looks like Cramblin Duvet Advertising just got their contract renewed. Detroiters, the Comedy Central show that follows the lives of two fictional and wacky young advertising “executives” and their hi-jinx through life and the city of Detroit, has been picked up for a second season. The show has been met with some critical acclaim and showcases Detroit’s culture and locales in their best light as a backdrop to absurd and almost cartoonish comedic scenes. Sam Richardson (Sam Duvet) and T...

Annual Greek Indpendence Parade Hits Monroe Street This Sunday, March 26

Are you looking for something to do this weekend? Do you enjoy going to Greektown? If you answered yes to both of those questions I have just the event for you. The 16th annual Detroit Greek Independence Day Parade is on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m. The parade is observing the start of the War of Greek Independence which was on March 25, 1821. The parade route starts at 1 Campus Martius (a.k.a. the former Compuware Headquarters) and goes down Monroe through Greektown. This year’s Grand...

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Poll Shows Duggan With A Strong Lead, But Not A Lock, On Detroit Mayoral Race

A poll released earlier this week conducted by Denno Research and commissioned by the Michigan Information & Research Service shows that while incumbent Detroit mayor Mike Duggan has a strong 25 point lead over his closest challenger, Coleman Young II, he hasn’t put an early lock on the race. The results of the phone survey of 310 likely voters gave Duggan a 46 to 21 percent lead, but Duggan did not poll over the 50 percent required for the pollster to say he was in a “safe zone for incumbents...

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Food Truck Park & Boozery Coming To Ferndale, Aims For Summer Opening

Ferndale is hopping on the development front. One of the latest is the redevelopment of the Wing Hing Inn at 1820 East 9 Mile Road, just west of I-75. The space is going to become “Detroit Fleat,” a food truck park that also will have a bar that they’re calling a “boozery.” They bill themselves as Metro Detroit’s first food truck park, and pulled tried and true ideas from other cities for the concept. “One of our partners has family members who lives in Portland where Food truck Parks and...

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Detroit Artist Brings His "Man In The City" To The Chicago River As Giant Inflatable

If you’ve kept a keen eye around Detroit, you might have noticed the orange metal “Man in the City” sculptures around town. You can find them (usually up high) on various buildings around town such as the Detroit Opera House and the Park Shelton. The project that got a start here in Detroit in 2008 is described as such by it’s creator, sculptor John Sauve: “The Man in the City Project creates a metaphor for life that transforms the skyline and encourages people to look around. In the disco...

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Two Restaurants In Detroit Make OpenTable's Top 100 Hot Spots In America, And One Is A Chain

Two restaurants in Detroit get a top nod from OpenTable’s top 100 hot spots in America. One of the top 100 is Republic Tavern, on the west side of downtown in the beautifully restored Grand Army of the Republic building. It focuses on local, seasonal ingredients and is “nose to tail.” All of the things one normally would expect to be on a list like this. The other top-ranked by diners? It’s a chain, Texas De Brazil’s location in the world headquarters building of Quicken Loans that “combines...

PICS: New Avalon Cafe And Bakery In Downtown Detroit Gets Signs, Banners

Woodward Avenue between Campus Martius and Grand Circus Park is shaping up with a variety of food and retail options, and one of them is the new Avalon Bakery location that’s scheduled to open later this year. The cafe at State and Woodward was originally announced back in 2015 for the summer of 2016, but as projects often do, it’s taken awhile longer for the dough to rise on this one. The project open is now slated for spring of this year, and they’ve starting taking job applications at 100...

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Buyers Are Snapping Up The New City Modern Development In Brush Park

If you have driven through Brush Park lately you can already see the City Modern development taking shape. City Modern is Bedrock’s answer to creating a complete urban environment, with mixed use and walkability across 8.4 acres of land in the Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit. City Modern offers residents five different styles of homes; Historic Homes, Townhomes, Carriage Homes, The Duplettes, and The Flats. Thursday, I was able to get a look at the five different models that developers...

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Michael Ford Is Out As Head Of Regional Transit Authority

There’s a change at the top of The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) today. Michael Ford is out as head as CEO of the organization, with the board voting to terminate his $200,000 per year contract. The Board of Directors, according to a news release, appointed Tiffany J. Gunter Interim CEO upon the departure of Michael Ford. Mrs. Gunter will serve in this role until a permanent replacement has been hired. “Michael came to the RTA and served as our first CEO. He was inst...

The Inside Of Little Caesars Arena Is Starting To Look More Like, Well, An Arena

It’s amazing what some seats and pouring a floor can do to take something that was looking a little sparse to looking like there’s actually going to be hockey and basketball played in it. Last week the cement floor that will support the ice rink and the basketball court (depending on the night) poured, and this week seats started to get put in. And good news, sports fans – they have cup holders. According to the District Detroit, the seats were manufactured by Grand Rapids-based Irwin...

Former Tuffy At Mack And Woodward Comes Down Ahead Of Future Retail Development

It’s wasn’t a building for the architectural ages, but it is a sign of activity at some prime real estate along Woodward and Mack Avenue in Midtown. An old Tuffy auto service center that has been vacant for years has been demolished in preparation for a retail development that will break ground in 2018 or 2019, Howard Schwartz Commercial Management confirmed Wednesday to Daily Detroit. The tenants of the new complex have not been confirmed at this point and we’re told it’s still very early s...

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MAPS: How Detroit's Population Density Stacks Up Against 12 Cities Around The World

What kind of future do you want for the city of Detroit? That’s a complicated question, but one factor of many to consider is population density. When we talk about Detroit coming back, adding population, losing population — density is a key part of this equation as denser cities encourage use of mass transit vs. cars, for instance. It’s often the case that controversial urban planning debates boil down to density. In short, whether a neighborhood should become more dense or less. What happe...

Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit This Weekend, March 17-19

It’s that time again, time to start making plans for this weekend. Friday is St. Patrick’s Day, so if you are planning on celebrating I suggest checking out Devon’s post over here. Let’s get on with this week’s City 5. 2017 Downriver Indie Craft Fair – Wyandotte I love a good craft fair, and this one looks like it’s going to be awesome. This is the fourth year for the Downriver Indie Craft Fair, which is ran by the Downriver Council of the Arts. The two day fair will have over 50 ven...

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Seafood Restaurant "Voyager" Opens In Ferndale This Thursday

There is a new seafood restaurant opening in Ferndale tomorrow. Voyager is owned and operated by Eli Boyer and co-executive chefs Jennifer Jackson and Justin Tootla. Jackson and Tootla relocated to Detroit from Chicago. However Tootla grew up in Bloomfield Hills, and Jackson grew up in Athens, Georgia. The restaurant will have a raw bar that will offer diners a selection of ceviches, crudos, and oysters from around the country. The selection of oysters will differ each day, and they could be...

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So Goat Yoga Is A Thing In Detroit Now

Every week I scroll through the internet and my email looking for interesting things that are going on for the weekend. Today is no exception, and I found Goat Yoga. Yes, Goat Yoga. It is exactly like it sounds, you are doing yoga with kid goats (a.k.a. baby goats) hanging out around you. Naaaaaaa-maste? via GIPHY The yoga sessions will be lead by certified yoga instructors Lindsay and Barb from Mueva Fitness. The session will blend movements and gentle stretches that mimic the kid go...

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Airbnb Doubles In Growth In Detroit, One Of 12 First Cities To Launch Airbnb Trips

Travel and tourism to Detroit is on the up, and one of the beneficiaries is Airbnb, which has seen a 100% growth rate in the last year and expects to double again next year. Airbnb is a popular online marketplace that connects travelers to local hosts who want to rent rooms, apartments or houses. According to Airbnb, they had a $10.5 million economic impact for Detroit in 2016, and are on track to double that to more than $20 million in 2017. They say $3.1 million of that went directly int...

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An Evening Of Stories: "School Days" With The Secret Society Of Twisted Storytellers & Chalkbeat

There is something special about listening to someone tell their story, and storytelling events have become pretty popular in the past few years. Every month The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers holds an evening of storytelling at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The next evening of storytelling is this Friday, March 17. The theme for the evening is “School Days.” The education news organization Chalkbeat reached out to Twisted Storytellers to put together an...

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