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Friday Is The Last Day To Apply For The Hatch Detroit Contest For A Chance To Win $50,000 For Your Small Business

If you’re looking for a way to get $50,000 in funding for your brick and mortar business or business idea that’s based in Detroit, Hamtramck or Highland Park, Hatch Detroit might be the answer. The contest is in its eighth year, and through a popular voting and judging process selects a winner to receive not only $50,000 in funding thanks to Comerica Bank, but also there’s a suite of business support services. The list of Hatch Detroit winners and alumni that have opened their businesses...

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Bike Share Program In Detroit Is Expanding Into These 5 Suburbs

Bike sharing is rockin’ the suburbs (with all apologies to Ben Folds). One year into a successful launch in greater downtown Detroit, the nonprofit MoGo is expanding into more Detroit neighborhoods and five suburban cities. The regional expansion includes the cities of Berkley, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Oak Park, and Royal Oak. “People’s transportation needs don’t stop at city borders,” said Lisa Nuszkowski, founder and executive director, MoGo. “Expansion of bike share sends an important...

Listen: Auto Show To June, Brandstatter Out, Campus Martius Improvements & Hatch Detroit

New podcast! Right under the deadline for finishing the show, we got word that the Detroit City Council has unanimously voted for a new Cass-Henry Historic District. We’ll dive into that more tomorrow… The North American International Auto Show looks like it 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. Detroit’s historic Bonstelle Theatre on Woodward Avenue is being decommissioned by Wayne State...

LISTEN: Fletcher Sharpe’s This Week In Detroit City FC

We talk about City’s 4-3 away loss at Kalamazoo FC to close out its National Premier League Soccer campaign and what the team needs to focus on to get back into the playoffs next season. We even touch on division winner AFC Ann Arbor’s playoff prospects, since Sharpe also covers the Mighty Oak for Midfield Press.midfieldpress.com/ Next, we catch up on all things World Cup, including red-hot Belgium’s chances in the semifinals against France, England’s annoying “It’s coming home” mantra and...

Better Made Chips Is Expanding Distribution To 14 New States

Beloved hometown brand Better Made says it plans to expand distribution of its chips and snacks to 14 new states. The company says its taking advantage of small distributors and demand from Michigan ex-pats now living in other states. Soon you will be able to buy Better Made potato chips and other snacks in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Crain’s Detroit Busin...

Union Calls For State Park Rangers To Be Armed

Could armed patrol officers be coming to your favorite state park? Over the weekend on Belle Isle, Michigan State police say that a female park ranger was assaulted while she was locking up some restrooms. According to police, a man tried to walk around the ranger when she told him to leave. He then proceeded to push her and call her “white privileged” then took off. The ranger was able to get back to her golf cart and get away. The Michigan State Employees Association is the union repre...

Ilitch Family Makes Deadline To Fix Code Violations On Two Blighted Properties On Cass Avenue

Crews were on the scene today making repairs at two long-blighted properties owned by the Ilitch family on Cass Avenue in Detroit. Monday was the deadline to fix code violations at the former Hotel Ansonia and the former Atlanta Apartments. Both buildings have long been without windows and are unsecured. The city flagged the violations in May and has reportedly twice extended the deadline for the Ilitches to come into compliance. No fines have been issued. The two buildings are also among...

Listen: Royal Oak. Restaurant Rumble, This Week In Detroit City FC With Fletcher Sharpe

And we’re back from the summer holiday week… and right into a rumble among Royal Oak, Michigan restaurants in regard to parking and the future of the city. We also dive into some recent closings around Detroit and openings… Also, should rangers at Michigan State Parks carry guns? In other state park news – specifically Belle Isle – The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear is scheduled to present their proposal to bring the race back to the the island next year... Olympia Develo...

What Metro Detroit Leaders Don’t Want To Tell You Is Our Region Has Been Losing Since 1970. Let’s Change That.

The common story is that Detroit’s suburbs have done great while the city fell apart and just now is coming back. And a common storyline I’ve heard is that Detroit wants a “free ride” off of the successful suburbs. Locally, people look at the city of Detroit’s decline as somehow separate from the suburbs. That after 1967 it all went to hell (although you should by know now that the city’s population peaked in 1950). But what if I told you that the suburbs aren’t truly successful? That althou...

NEWS BYTE: Alan Mallach, Author Of "The Divided City," Detroit City FC Wrap-Up, Lafayette Park Development & News

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for July 2nd, 2018. Our feature guests: Alan Mallach is the author of “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America.” He joins Sven to talk about Detroit’s nascent and unequal comeback. Book link here: https://www.amazon.com/Divided-City-Poverty-Prosperity-America/dp/1610917812 Fletcher Sharpe also bring us his weekly wrap-up of Detroit City FC and he talks World Cup. And our headlines: Detroit’s Lafayette Park neighborho...

MoGo, DDOT Team Up For Bus Pass With Bike Share Pass In Detroit

Now, when you buy a Detroit bus pass, you’ll get a free 30-day MoGo bike share pass. That’s part of a new deal between the city’s department of transportation and the bike share system that is good for weekly, bi-weekly or monthly DDOT bus passes. Although met with some initial skepticism, by most objective measures MoGo, a service that focuses on the greater downtown with 43 bike stations, has been a success. It’s had higher ridership than expected — and no, people aren’t just stealing t...

New $108 Million "Lafayette West" To Be Built In Lafayette Park

Detroit’s Lafayette Park neighborhood on the east side of greater downtown Detroit will be seeing yet another new development. The developer, Ginosko Development Company, is currently calling it “Lafayette West.” It’ll bring 374 new residences to the city across 5.2 acres. It will replace the empty Shapero Hall that formerly housed Wayne State’s Pharmacy School just off of I-375 and Rivard. So what will this look like? There will be a 12-story high-rise with 114 luxury rental units alo...

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LISTEN: Fletcher Sharpe's This Week In Detroit City FC

Fletcher Sharpe joins the Daily Detroit News Byte to talk about this week in Detroit City FC. There will be no post-season for LeRouge and Fletcher brings us up to speed. And, as they’re both soccer nerds, Sven and Fletcher dive into talking about the World Cup. There’s one more regular season game left in Kalamazoo for DCFC, then a short series of friendlies. Fletcher appears on Monday’s shows....

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PODCAST: Ensuring Detroit's Revival Benefits Everyone With Alan Mallach, Author Of "The Divided City"

How does can an urban revival work for everyone? That’s a question at the center of Detroit’s nascent comeback. Sven Gustafson talks with Alan Mallach. He’s the author of new book, “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America.” Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC. A city planner, advocate and writer. He is known for his work on housing, economic development, and urban revitalization. He’s also a former director of housing & econom...

Listen: Trump's Tariffs, Auto Show Changes, Tesla's Musk Knocks Ford, And The New Chevy Blazer With Autoblog's Greg Migliore

Greg Migliore from Autoblog joins Sven Gustafson on the Daily Detroit News Byte to talk all things cars. There’s President Trump’s tariffs and their impact on the Detroit industry, and why Greg thinks they’re not a great idea. Also, Elon Musk takes shots at Ford, there’s a new Chevy Blazer, and AAA has a new study out about infotainment systems. Finally, the North American International Auto Show will be moving to a warmer month – either in the summer or fall and it will have outdoor even...

NEWS BYTE: Detroiter Wendell Brown Sentenced To Four Years In Chinese Jail, Auto News With Greg Migliore Of Autoblog & More

Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast. Wendell Brown, a Detroiter who went to King High School, loved football so much that he ended up going to China to teach the sport. Now he’s been sentenced to four years in a Chinese jail. We dive into the story. Greg Migliore from Autoblog joins us to talk all things cars. President Trump’s tariffs and their impact on the Detroit industry and why Greg thinks they’re not a great idea. The North American International Auto Show will be movin...

New "Out Of The Crate" Gallery In The Detroit Institute Of Arts Opens July 14

The Detroit Institute of Arts will be displaying nine new pieces of art in its “Out of the Crate: New Gifts and Purchases” gallery on July 14th. The gallery was created at the beginning of this year to show off the new artwork the museum has collected. The DIA rotates the gallery every six months. Each piece has been selected by DIA Director Salvador Salort-Pons. One of the highlights of the gallery is a set of 24 photographs titled “Bridges Over Flint” by Matthew Brandt. Brandt photogr...

City Of Detroit To Open Six Cooling Centers Over The Weekend Due To Heat Wave

As we said earlier this week, a heat wave is coming this weekend. In response, the city of Detroit will open six air-conditioned recreation centers on Saturday and Sunday. The cooling centers will be open during regular business hours on Friday and from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Here is the list of cooling centers: * Williams Recreation Center – 8431 Rosa Parks Boulevard * Coleman A. Young Recreation Center – 2751 Robert Bradby Drive * Patton Recreation Center –...

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