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PODCAST: Detroit City Lacrosse, Grand Prix Update & Your Stories

Our featured guest is Christianne Sims. She’s the founder of Detroit City Lacrosse, and she talks about the new program and how it’ll impact the youth of Detroit. Our headlines: – Signs are pointing to the Grand Prix returning to Belle Isle next year. With the last contract expired, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it wants to move forward on a plan to keep the race at the island park, assuming key issues can be resolved. – The Swiss hospital that treated him says forme...

News Byte Podcast Episode 100: Detroit Development-A-Palooza

Somehow, we made it to 100 episodes! We’ve got a lot of real estate development news to go through on this episode of the podcast recorded on July 26, 2018. Our stories: Detroit will get a brand-new skyscraper. Midland-based Chemical Bank says it plans to relocate its headquarters and more than 500 executives and employees to downtown Detroit. There, it plans to build a 20-story building at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Elizabeth Street on the site of a surface parking lot next to the...

NEWS BYTE PODCAST: Auto Show To Move To June, Regional Transit Is Dead, And Lisa Stolarski Talks About Her Company Antique Touring

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for July 23, 2018. Welcome back from the weekend. We hope that it was eventful and dry. Sven is off and in the woods, literally. He’ll be back later in the week. On the show today: * Detroit’s Auto Show will be moving to the week of June 8th in 2020 * Metro Detroit’s shot for four-county regional transit is once again killed at the end of last week * This week the Michigan State Police will be cracking down on drivers who don’t move over * TechT...

LISTEN: This Tour Company Will Take You Around Belle Isle In A 1930 Ford Model A

Lisa Stolarski joins Daily Detroit in the studio to talk about her new company called Antique Touring Company. Antique Touring Company takes you on a 2 hour tour around Detroit and Belle Isle in a 1930 Ford Model A. You’ll learn about the history of the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, the Fisher Body site, the Packard Plant and Belle Isle. Tickets for the tour are $65 for adults and $60 for children. You can find tour dates and times here....

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Progressive winds are blowing across America. We’re about to find out how strong they are in Michigan.

Staring at the computer on Thursday night watching the Democratic debate for Michigan governor, a realization hit. Abdul El-Sayed could win this primary. It’s not that Gretchen Whitmer hasn’t been a public servant with a strong record. Or that she’d be a terrible choice of governor if you’re a Democrat. She’s running up against forces out of her control, forces that the party and the country and part are wrestling with nationally. As there isn’t much policy daylight between the candidates, thi...

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LISTEN: Kevin Allison of Risk! Headlines Refreshed Happy Hour Podcast

Warning: Episode contains salty language. Not many F-bombs, but F-bombs nonetheless. Friends, we’re back! After a brief hiatus, the Daily Detroit Happy Hour returns with a fresh new episode. Truth be told, we’ve been taking some time to refocus the show and what we’re about. So you’ll notice some new things. In the interests of offering more variety, we’ll be doing more and shorter segments, which was always a goal anyway, at a slightly faster pace. We’ll still feature great interviews wi...

Michigan Glass Project's Live Glassblowing Festival Returns To The Russell Industrial Center This Weekend

Today on the News Byte Jeremy Ross, the Artist Liaison with the Michigan Glass Project joins us to talk about Michigan Glass Project and the upcoming Live Glassblowing and Arts Festival this weekend. The three day festival will be held at the Russell Industrial Center. The festival raises money for the nonprofit organization Art Road, which brings art classes back into schools. Last year the festival raised $100,000 for the nonprofit. This year there will be 70 borosilicate glass artists...

Listen: Sister Pie's Lisa Ludwinski Talks Pie, New Cookbook, And West Village

Lisa Ludwinski the owner of Sister Pie joins us on the News Byte to talk all things pie. During the conversation she talks about why she uses butter for her crusts, and the changes that have happened in West Village since she opened in 2015. Ludwinski has a new cookbook coming out called “Sister Pie: The Recipes & Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit.” It comes out on October 2, 2018. You can preorder the book here. Just a word or warning, you might start craving a piece of Bluebe...

Listen: Detroit's Bankruptcy Five Years Later With Author Nathan Bomey

Nathan Bomey returns to the News Byte to discuss the 5th anniversary of Detroit’s bankruptcy. Bomey covered the city’s bankruptcy for the Detroit Free Press, and he turned that expertise into a 2016 book, “Detroit Resurrected; From Bankruptcy and Back.” He now works as a business reporter for USA Today. He currently has a new book out called “After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump,” which we discussed previously on this show. Bomey will also be the...

LISTEN: Biking Every Linear Mile Of Detroit With Thomas Leeper

Stopping in the studio today is Thomas Leeper. He’s the creative force behind a website, “Every Linear Mile” and he’s literally chronicling every mile of street in the city of Detroit. We dive into his passion project that spans the city block by block, what he’s learned about the city, and his advice for those trying to juggle responsibilities while trying to do a large creative endeavor. Listen to the podcast in the player above, and catch the whole show wherever you download your fav...

CONFIRMED: MoGo Bike Share Will Expand To Livernois 'Avenue Of Fashion' In Detroit

As we reported last week, Detroit’s MoGo bike share program plans to expand next spring to new Detroit neighborhoods and five inner-ring suburbs. And we can now confirm that that Detroit neighborhood is the Livernois “Avenue of Fashion” district between McNichols and Eight Mile, where it will join up with Ferndale, another participating community. We had Lisa Nuszkowski, founder and executive director of MoGo, and Justin Lyons, the city of Ferndale’s planning manager, on the Daily Detroit N...

PODCAST: A Retractable Roof For Ford Field? Clutch And Throttle Motorcycle Shop Opening In Detroit & More

Friends, we have returned from a quick weekend getaway — Jer went up to Mackinac Island, while Sven drove down to Columbus, Ohio for a Courtney Barnett show — and are back with a fresh new show. And it’s our first one recorded in the new Podcast Detroit studio inside the Detroit Shipping Company, which had its soft open on Friday and remains, uh, softly open? In today’s show, we discuss: * Ford Field’s future retractable roof? * The future of the Belle Isle Grand Prix * Detroit mis...

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Watch A Walking Tour Of The New Detroit Shipping Company

Today is the soft opening for the Detroit Shipping Company, the new food court/biergarden/art gallery/event space made out of shipping containers in Midtown the lower Cass Corridor. While it doesn’t open for real until July 30, we got a chance to check it out during a VIP preview party this week, and we shot this video to show you around. The facility has six restaurants, two full-service bars, a Falling Down Beer Co. microbar, a combination coffee shop/ice cream parlor, popup retail space a...

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Developers Demolish Pharmacy For New 7.Liv Project at 7 Mile and Livernois

Activity at the site of the $8 million 7.Liv mixed-use development has entered a new phase with the demolition of a former pharmacy next to the long-vacant B. Siegel Department Store on the corner of 7 Mile and Livernois on Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion. The corner has been busy for months, with crews working on underground infrastructure having dug up the entire corner. Today we were driving past on the way to grab lunch up the street when we noticed the entire former Revco pharmacy structure o...

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LISTEN: New Cass-Henry Historic District With Eric Kehoe, MoGo Expansion, Red Bull Arts Detroit, & Amazon Hiring

On today’s show, we dive into yesterday’s late-breaking news about Detroit City Council’s vote to establish the new Cass-Henry Historic District in the shadow of Little Caesars Arena. The district includes two buildings owned by the Ilitch family that they’ve proposed to demolish as part of the District Detroit project. We speak with Eric Kehoe, president of the board of directors at Preservation Detroit, about the significance of making it a historic district and what it means for those...

Campus Martius Park Getting $125,000 Makeover Thanks To The Southwest Airlines Foundation

The popular Campus Martius Beach is getting a makeover. The park that has served five million people will be getting a $125,000 grant from the Southwest Airlines Foundation. The Downtown Detroit Partnership says there will be new beach furniture and toys, games, lighting, landscaping, a beach attendant and programs that appeal to all ages. Also, new beach-side beer and wine tastings are coming, as well as a music series called Beach House: Summer Sounds from Around the World, where local D...

The Detroit Auto Show Will Be Moving To June In 2020

The Detroit auto show is moving dates, and now we have a good idea as to when. Multiple media reports say that the show will move from January to June in 2020. The move would take advantage of better summer weather and allow for more outdoor experiences, that would aim to better show off the vehicles and the city of Detroit. The Detroit News reports that the event may no longer be named the North American International Auto Show, and there are variety of new names in the running. Moving...

New Study Says Homeownership For African Americans Has Declined In Michigan

It used to be that Detroit and Michigan were places where black families made progress on home ownership compared to the rest of the country. That’s no longer the case. A new report from the Urban Institute chronicles homeownership rates for African Americans in Michigan. It says they’ve declined dramatically over the last 18 years, from 60% of African Americans owning homes in 2000 to 41% in 2016. Overall, home ownership among all races declined in Michigan from 79% in 2000 to 76% in 2016...

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