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All This Was Trees, And Now It May Be Again – Apple Trees, That Is

A few years ago, famous street artist Banksy painted at the Packard Plant on the east side of Detroit a piece that said, “I Remember When All This Was Trees.” Banksy was right. At one point, that’s what this area was before industrial production filled Detroit’s landscape, for a time, with factories and smokestacks. The area also had fertile soil that the French farmers in the early 1800s said was so good they didn’t even have to work to raise crops. Well, the trees may well be here again. D...

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Detroit Area Has Two Of The Top 25 Museums In America, Says BI

Detroit has amazing museums that we often don’t give enough praise to. Some may forget them because they’re always here, or not even realize they’re just a short drive away. Two of our great Detroit area museums were listed in Business Insider’s “The 25 best museums in America, RANKED” this week – and we’d have to agree, they’re pretty amazing and do stand out among the 35,000 or so museums in the country. Ranked at 16, Greenfield Village/The Henry Ford in Dearborn. It’s really two museum...

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Former Third Precinct Building In Southwest Detroit To Be Home To Detroit School For Digital Technology

As a marketing and branding guy here in Detroit I get a chance to see so many great things day to day. We continue to blossom with great opportunities sprouting up and forging us forward into the Digital space. There’s one project in particular that I’m happy to have watched materialize into what could be a major tie in to providing national and international attention to the city, and I couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this team. The Detroit School for Digital Technology, which has...

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Walk For Warriors To Raise Funds For Financial Assistance, Advocacy & Awareness Around Lupus This Saturday

The 4th Annual “Walk For Warriors” fundraising walk this Saturday will see hundreds – if not thousands – of people participate in a mile long route geared toward everyone’s ability. Patrons will enjoy pre and post event refreshments, entertainment, raffles and more at New Center Park. Detroit’s own R&B recording artist Tem LeMay will grace the stage with a music performance and, WXYZ Meteorologist Denise Isaac will be the event emcee. This year’s walk is sponsored by United Healthcare, St....

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Humbly Helping Our Formerly Homeless Neighbors To Truly Have A Home, Not Just A House

Humble Design is just that – humble. You won’t hear them tooting their horn about number of families coming out of homeless and abuse shelters they’ve helped have a home, not just house, or that they have made it possible for those families to smile again and rebuild their lives. The Pontiac-based organization does it all by repurposing donated gently used household goods that teams of designers use to furnish and decorate the house to make it as close to the dream home the family has always w...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit This Labor Day Weekend

Seeing as it is the last unofficial weekend of summer, we thought we would bring you another supersized list of things to do. If you love music, this weekend is for you. There is so much live music being played in Metro Detroit that I have can’t even count it all. Hopefully you can make it to one of these cool events between family barbecues and taking your last dips in the community pools. Hamtramck Labor Day Festival – Hamtramck Head over to the greatest little Polish town on the map to...

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Most Detroit Schools Are Off The Chopping Block For Now, But 5 Charter Schools Could Still Close

Dozens of low-performing Detroit schools that faced possible closure next spring may have gotten a stay of execution from Gov. Rick Snyder this week — but some city charter schools are still on the hot seat. Snyder has said low-performing schools should close. But an aide said this week that the governor had accepted the opinion of attorneys with the Miller Canfield law firm: New legislation requiring the state to shutter struggling Detroit schools does not actually apply to Detroit’s primary...

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Detroit's Bus Service To Gain 1,500 Trips A Week And Get More 24 Hour Lines, Says Mayor

In the Motor City, depending on who is doing the estimate, between 26% and a third of households do not own a car in the city of Detroit. That’s roughly the same percentage as Chicago or San Francisco – but we obviously don’t have the same transportation infrastructure. Here in Detroit our comparably lackluster system often locks people into poverty as they reasonably can’t get to or from work without a car. So what happens to transportation – especially the Detroit Department of Transportat...

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Throwback Hip Hop Station 105.1 FM Is The New King Of Detroit Radio

It’s quite the turnaround for 105.1 WMGC FM. Languishing for a long time near the bottom of the radio ratings, the station made a switch in July from sports radio which is totally dominated here by 97.1 FM The Ticket (WXYT) to old school hip-hop. And according to the latest ratings book, people have responded strongly to “The Bounce,” a station that kicked off their first song with “The Real Slim Shady” by Detroit’s Eminem. The station had an 8.0 share in their first full Nielsen PPM (Portab...

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Dr. Stein From Green Party, Republican Nominee Trump To Be In Detroit On Same Day

Detroit’s going to play host to not one, but two, presidential candidates on Saturday, September 3 – both at establishments headed by African-Americans. The Green Party is going to have a rally with their presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, at Bert’s Warehouse in Eastern Market (2739 Russell Street in Detroit), along with her VP pick, Ajamu Baraka. The event will run from noon to 3:00 p.m. Press folks from the campaign tell Daily Detroit in an email that they “will speak on how the Green...

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Five Metro Area Nonprofits Receive $50,000 In Grants From Two GM Assembly Plants

The General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center and Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant awarded $50,000 in grants to five metro Detroit nonprofit organizations committed to community development, environmental cleanup and educational programs. The nonprofits were voted on by employees at each plant and awarded through the GM Community Grants program, funded by the GM Foundation. The checks were presented during Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly’s annual employee appreciation day event. Each organi...

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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...

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