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News Byte Podcast: Detroit's Bond Rating Goes Up, Karen Dybis Checks Out The Downtown Spring Market, Majestic Renovation & More

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for May 23rd, 2018. Here are your stories for today. – Detroit’s bond rating has been upgraded by Moody’s. We talk about how increased tax collections have improved Detroit’s financial picture and how incentives come into play. – The crowdfunding dinner Detroit SOUP is coming to Ferndale – Karen Dybis checked out a preview of Bedrock’s Spring and Summer market in a couple of parks in downtown Detroit. She comes on the show to share her though...

Falling Down Beer Company In Downtown Oxford Is Expanding Space, Adding Patio

Turns out Oxford in Oakland County might be a place to add to the map for craft beer. Locally-owned Falling Down Beer Company’s northern location has apparently seen big success since it opened a few months ago. Daily Detroit has learned that the operation, located on North Washington Street, has taken over the next-door space in downtown Oxford and has begun construction work. According to the tasting rooms’ Facebook page, it’ll be a project in progress over the summer. Patios have...

PODCAST: St. Pauli FC, U.S. Open Cup: This Week In Detroit City FC With Fletcher Sharpe

It was a big week for Detroit City FC, with a midweek loss to drop them out of the U.S. Open Cup and a weekend friendly against one of Germany’s most popular clubs. I checked in with Midfield Press correspondent Fletcher Sharpe for a rundown of all the action....

Bedrock Projects In Detroit Approved For $618 Million In Incentives

A state panel has approved hundreds of millions in tax incentives tied to four major projects planned by Dan Gilbert in downtown Detroit. The Michigan Strategic Fund today approved $618 million in tax incentives for four projects being undertaken by Gilbert’s Bedrock real estate arm. They are: * The redevelopment of the former Hudson’s site on Woodward * A multi-use redevelopment of the Monroe Block between Campus Martius and Greektown * Restoration of the historic Book Build...

$12/Hour Minimum Wage Initiative Submits Signatures, Could Go Before Michigan Voters

A group pushing to raise Michigan’s minimum wage has submitted signatures in a bid to get a proposal on the November ballot. The Michigan One Fair Wage group wants voters to decide whether Michigan’s minimum wage should be raised to $12 an hour by 2022. It turned in more than 370,000 signatures. That’s well above the roughly 250,000 that the Board of State Canvassers needs to certify. If it does, the proposal would go before the Legislature, which would have the option of passing it on it...

PODCAST: RTA Transit Plans Die A Suburban Death, A Possible Michigan Minimum Wage Hike & More

Here’s your News Byte Podcast for May 23, 2018. The plan for a four-county regional Transit Authority in southeastern Michigan is practically dead with Oakland County Exec L. Brooks Patterson and his counterpart in Macomb, Mark Hackel, pulling the plug. So what’s the real story with Amazon’s HQ2 bid and regional transit? We reached out to Amazon about it and got a response, and we try to figure it out. Someone’s not telling the truth… but who? Gilbert’s development team, including Bedro...

NEWS BYTE PODCAST: KAWS Statue, New Heidelberg Project App, This Week In Detroit City FC & More

New Podcast! A new statue by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS is creating quite a stir in Detroit… Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia and the Lions will not be disciplined by the NFL… Cadillac Place in New Center will be getting new tenants soon… The Heidelberg Project gets a new app… JR JR & more are playing Beacon Park Detroit…. Bob Seger is returning to his tour… The Gleaners Women’s Happy Hour is Tuesday… Falling Down Beer Company – Oxford Tasting Room is expanding… And we catch...

See JR JR, Saint Motel At Free Outdoor Concerts This Summer In Downtown Detroit

Beacon Park now anchors downtown Detroit’s west side as a place for fun and events. A companion to Campus Martius Park, it added another green space and restaurant to the downtown scene Now they’re ratcheting up their concert game. A three-part free concert series is coming to the park this summer. Two of the acts have been announced. JR JR, will kick off the series on Saturday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. Originally named Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Royal Oak duo of Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott...

PODCAST: Detroit Bar & Prohibition History With Mickey Lyons

We’re getting back to our boozy roots with this Daily Detroit Happy Hour conversation with barchaeologist Mickey Lyons. She’s the talent author behind a recent Hour Detroit piece, “Dry Times: Looking Back 100 Years After Prohibition.” Sven Gustafson — no stranger to a bar himself as a former bartender — and Mickey have a great conversation talking about the old time history of Detroit bars and prohibition, and how drinking changed in Detroit forever. Mickey Lyons has a book coming out t...

In Ferndale, Angst Rises Alongside Housing Prices And New Developments

My wife and I talk a lot lately about what to do with our house. We just passed our 13th anniversary of buying our first home here in Ferndale. We’ve had two children in that time. Our home is, at long last, no longer under water, and we think we could probably turn a decent profit from selling it. Like anyone else, we’d like to upgrade to something a bit nicer. We want to stay in Ferndale. But we’re not sure we can afford to buy a home here anymore. Ferndale is in the midst of an incredib...

News Byte: MSU Settlement, Detroit Vegan City, Sushi Disappointment, Bike To Work Day And More

Here’s your show for March 16th, 2018. There’s a $500 million dollar settlement between Michigan State University and victims of Larry Nassar… That house that’s asking for millions of dollars by Little Caesars Arena? Well, the city of Detroit may condemn it… Plans for Social Sushi Detroit near the Avenue of Fashion have collapsed for now… Heard of Detroit Rock City? Well, now it’s Detroit Vegan City, at least according to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)… Mackinac...

LISTEN: Could Highland Park Get A New High School? An Interview With School Board President Alexis Ramsey

Highland Park’s school district is a shadow of its former self following years of state emergency management, the closure of its high school in 2015 and its subsequent demolition. But the district is now out of financial oversight and looking to grow. Last week, while recording an episode of the Daily Detroit Happy Hour, we ran into Highland Park School Board President Alexis Ramsey. We spoke with her about what’s new with the struggling district … its relationship with a for-profit charter...

Facebook, Grand Circus To Kick Off Second Round Of Training In Detroit and Grand Rapids

Facebook is supporting a second round of bootcamps in Detroit and Grand Rapids. The participants, through Grand Circus, will receive full scholarships valued at nearly $10,000. Participants will receive training in C# and dot NET in Grand Rapids, and Java in Detroit. This second bootcamp is a part of Facebook’s plan to train 3,000 Michiganders in coding and social media business marketing over the next two years. 25 students were in the first bootcamp last fall. Graduates have since bee...

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Your City 5 Things To Do This Weekend: It's Finally Warm Edition For May 18-20

Hey all. The good doctor fun is here to sub in for Shianne as she’s out the next couple of weeks, finding fun things for you to do this weekend around the city of Detroit. Let’s dive in and enjoy Detroit this weekend. Bike To Work Day I get it, Detroiters. You’re either down with pedal power or you’re not. Me? I am. So I’ll be rolling in on Bike to Work Day this Friday and getting my weekend started off right. Living in the city, I’m probably going to hitch up with the caravan in Highla...

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More Bike Lanes, Slower Traffic For East Jefferson In Detroit

The city of Detroit has begun work on a one million-dollar project to redesign East Jefferson Avenue. The goal is to make it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. The project centers on a nearly 5-and-a-half-mile stretch of East Jefferson from Rivard Street downtown to Lakewood Street in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood. There, it will join up with protected bike lanes already in place … meaning cyclists will be able to ride on protected bike lanes from downtown all the way to the Grosse...

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News Byte Podcast: New MoGo Bikes, Jefferson Bike Lanes, Facebook Funding Training In Detroit And A New Highland Park High School?

From the bustling heart of Midtown over a couple Faygo pops, this is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Here are your stories for today. * Jefferson on the east side is getting smaller for cars… and bigger for bikes * Detroit’s Bike sharing service gets new adaptive bikes * Facebook is funding more software training in Detroit * And Highland Park is laying plans for a new high school. Sven Gustafson talked to their school board president, Alexis Ramsey. Like the...

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LISTEN: This Week In Detroit City FC With Fletcher Sharpe

It was a week of soaring highs and crashing lows for Detroit City FC. Last week le Rouge advanced out of the first round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup by knocking out bitter rivals the Michigan Bucks by advancing on penalty kicks. Then on Sunday, City opened its NPSL league play by dropping a point late to AFC Ann Arbor. I spoke with Midfield Press and TheCup.US correspondent Fletcher Sharpe to recap the action and talk about what’s coming up next. We’ll be checking in regularly with Fletc...

Hatch Detroit Returns, Offers $50,000 For Retail Ideas In Detroit, Highland Park & Hamtramck

If you’ve been following Detroit happenings for awhile, you may have heard of some of these names. Batch Brewing Company. Sister Pie. Hugh. La Feria Tapas. Live Cycle Delight. All businesses that went through the Hatch Detroit contest. Some were even featured nationally by Martha Stewart and others. For each of the last eight years, Hatch Detroit has awarded a $50,000 prize for retail entrepreneurs looking to open a brick and mortar location in Detroit, Highland Park or Hamtramck. Sinc...

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