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When It Comes To Real Estate, Data Shows Two Very Different Detroits

Detroit has a hot market in the central core, but the city’s overall real estate market is still facing a lot of headwind. The gap is large. $429,000 units – like the new Selden development – are pre-selling available units out in mere days, and big-name folks like Tony Hawk are moving in while the city as a whole still is tied for the most unsold homes owned by banks and lowest median home price appreciation in the country, according to a new report out today by Wallethub.com. Detroit is al...

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Most Buildings Repaired, But School Starts With As Many As 200 Teaching Jobs Unfilled In New Detroit Public District

Eight months after hundreds of Detroit teachers made national headlines by calling in sick to draw attention to deplorable conditions like rodents and buckling floors in public schools, city officials today announced that they’ve spent $2.5 million to get most city schools into tip-top shape ahead of the start of classes next week. At a press conference at the elite Bates Academy in northwest Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan and school officials said that all but eight of the 94 school buildings in...

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WATCH: Detroit Police Chief Asks You To "Be Part Of The Change" In Detroit

The City of Detroit wants you to be part of the change in Detroit, says a new video released by the city and voiced over by none other than Detroit Police Chief James Craig. Highlighting a litany of local rising stars and places, the two and a half minute piece produced by Zara Creative is a mix of Detroit old and new. The piece has nearly 20,000 views on Facebook as of this writing. The piece talks about how valuable the men and women who wear a police uniform and how “some of the absolute...

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10th Annual Belle Isle Garden Party To Benefit Whitcomb Conservatory

The Belle Isle Conservancy, along with leaders of the Grosse Pointe area’s garden club communities, is hosting the 10thannual Garden Party on Belle Isle on Tuesday, September 13th from 5:30PM-7:30PM. The annual event raises funds for various projects benefiting the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory. Proceeds from this year’s event will support the restoration of the Lily Pond and its surrounding garden. The restoration will improve the quality of the pond’s infrastructure, as well as provide...

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8 Detroit Developments This Week + Bonus Eye Candy - August 29, 2016 Edition

If it seems as if it’s almost every day there are multiple announcements of what’s happening in downtown Detroit, you’d be right. The pace of new (and replacement) development is starting to accelerate to an intense pace. Whether it’s food options, new housing – or something else – it’s head-spinning. Let’s get started. Our last edition was six days ago, and you can see it here. 1+2. Two New Buildings In Capitol Park Downtown Detroit’s starting to fill in those awful tiny parking lots. T...

Meta Physica Massage And Sauna Wins 2016 Hatch Detroit Contest

The 2016 winner of Hatch is Meta Physica Massage and Sauna. Meta Physica is owned by Jenaveve Biernat a massage therapist. The win comes after Meta Physica made it to the top ten out of over 150 applications were turned in, two rounds of public voting, a live presentation, and a question and answer session with the panel of judges. The panel of judges deliberated for over an hour on Friday evening to decide who would be this years winner. This years finalists were all great, and I would have...

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$2 Million Given To 20 Programs That Help Provide Food Access And Security In Detroit

Many people have to deal with the task of choosing between purchasing the basic necessity or purchasing food. Food insecurity, a hidden struggle, exists unknowingly in many of our community. The two groups that are most affected by this are children and seniors and more than 780,000 people do not have consistent access to healthy food. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan plans to help decrease this rising issue by awarding $2 million in grants to 20 programs designed to improve hea...

Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Week Of August 26-28

Look, if you’re not out this weekend, you’re missing one of the best weekends we’ve written about so far this year. We normally like to keep it at five events, but this week we’re bringing you a few more. Go out and enjoy the last few weeks of summer, because before you know it the leaves will be changing, everything will taste like pumpkin spice, and then winter will be upon us. Detroit Bikes X New Belgium Celebration of Collaboration – Tangent Gallery/Hastings Street Ballroom Come out t...

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Vacant St. Mary's School In Greektown To Become Jack Entertainment Headquarters

On what is basically Detroit’s Bourbon Street of Monroe Avenue, there has been a lot of investment as late, whether it’s through Greektown Casino (soon to be known early next year as JACK Detroit Casino-Hotel Greektown), the new Wahlburgers, or the litany of restaurants, some of which have been there for many years (like Pegasus Taverna, for more than a quarter century). Next up to find new life is the St. Mary’s School, across from St. Mary’s church in Greektown. The building has been vac...

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Garbage Can Of Cats Dropped Off At Humane Society In Monroe

Seven cats were left in a covered garbage can outside the Humane Society of Monroe County on Telegraph Road last night, covered in their own urine. “We will do everything in our power to find loving foster homes for these cats, until permanent homes can be found,” said the society in a Facebook post. We reached out to Wendy Graber of the Humane Society of Monroe to get suggestions on what people should do instead of a blind drop outside of the shelter. When it is a situation of immediate n...

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FIRST LOOK: Douglas & Co. Opens A New Studio And Storefront In Milwaukee Junction

Detroit’s entrepreneurial spirit is on the rise, and it seems new businesses are opening every day. Some have big names, or are part of national chains – but not many of them are truly local, making and selling goods right here in Detroit. Douglas & Co., a company we’ve profiled before, is making moves opening a new studio and store in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood. Shane and Melissa Douglas from Douglas & Co officially opened their new studio on Thursday, August 25. The married c...

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Bike Lanes, Other Changes Are Being Tested On Livernois ‘Avenue of Fashion’

The City of Detroit is conducting a demonstration project on a roughly half-mile stretch of Livernois Avenue to test the idea of calming traffic, installing bike lanes and making other improvements to give a boost to businesses in the city’s so-called “Avenue of Fashion.” Crews have installed orange barrels, temporary signage and rubber crosswalk mats, with lines temporarily painted on the pavement to mark bike lanes and a barrier from the parking lanes, which take up one of two lanes of traff...

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Tony Hawk, Skateboarder Extraordinaire, Buys A House In Detroit

Whether it’s seeing Jack White out and about, or a glimpse of Eminem, or stopping into Wahlburger to catch a glimpse of Mark Wahlberg, judging the the reaction online most of us can’t get enough. Here’s the latest entry in Detroit celebrity watching. Tony Hawk – whose wife is from Michigan – just bought a house in the Woodbrige Neighborhood of Detroit. Curbed says it’s from 1900, and the Freep says that it’s a three unit house, with two of the units up for rental (There’d be a set of Airbnb tr...

Get Your Walking Shoes On To Help Seniors In September

Did you know that September is National Senior Center month? There are numerous issues that seniors face on a daily basis, and 20 senior centers and agencies have come together to highlight them during the month of September. With issues like nutrition, healthy maintenance, and transportation affecting our aging community it is important that seniors know that there are organizations out there to help. Get your calendars out because on Saturday, September 24 for the “Strides for Seniors” wal...

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Airbnb Rentals In Detroit Up 127% In The Last Year, Hosting 20,000 Guests

Some people love it, some people hate it, and some people just plain don’t understand it. Airbnb, a darling of the “sharing” economy everyone’s talking about where people rent out rooms or places they’re not using to travelers and the like, is growing in Detroit. If you don’t know what Airbnb is, in a nutshell, it’s where people use an online service to book rooms in other people’s houses or properties. You can reserve dates, see pictures of the room, know where it’s located and read reviews o...

Last Chance To Dine At Hamtramck's Rock City Eatery This Weekend Before They Move To Midtown

After almost three years at the current location on Joseph Campau in Hamtramck the time has finally come for Rock City Eatery to move to the new location in Midtown. It was reported last September that the owners Nikita Sanches and Jessica Imbronone Sanches had decided to to move the popular restaurant to a larger space on Woodward. Rock City Eatery is best known for the rotating menu filled with Sanches versions of comfort food, and pie. (Remember when Rock City Pies were at Rust Belt Marke...

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So Faygo Candles Are A Real Thing Now

It looks like there has been a spate of licensing deals with one of Detroit’s iconic brands, Faygo. Recently, Detroit Bikes announced they were teaming up with the beverage maker to produce a line of bikes in the iconic pastel colors, along with a glittery fleck. The latest comes from Motor City Creations out of Plymouth, and it’s a limited edition line of soy candles with a wood wick. The six flavors include Vanilla Cream, Orange, Root Beer, Grape, Rock ‘n Rye and Redpop. According to the...

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A Block Away, But A World Apart: Detroit And Grosse Pointe Schools Have Largest Poverty Divide In Nation

School district borders often divide students by income — and in Detroit and many other places across the U.S., that gulf is especially wide. That is the conclusion reached in a report released Tuesday by EdBuild, a nonprofit dedicated to overhauling the way states fund education. The report looked at neighboring school systems and found that the poverty rate can be eight times higher from one district to the next. “You’re talking about, really, haves and have-nots that are living across an...

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