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The Weekender: Guilty plea // Detroit after Duggan // Another historic rehab // Things to do

Hey friends, it's Jer. Hope you're having a good weekend. Let's get into 12 things to know around town. As always, my thoughts are in italics and if this is your first time here sign up for future notes free. 📰 What to know 💰 Will Smith, ex-CFO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud and money laundering charges. Smith admitted to embezzling more than $40 million from the nonprofit between 2012 and 2024, using elaborate schemes to divert funds to personal...

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BONUS: What is the state of Detroit? (ft. Chase Cantrell)

On Wednesday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan delivered his eleventh State of the City address. It was a rapid-fire list of wins, and areas where he wants to focus on the next year. But what is the state of our city, from a different perspective? What if we take a minute, or an hour in this case, and unpack what's happening in Michigan's largest city with a different lens? Chase Cantrell - he heads up Building Community Value, lectures at the University of Michigan and is an active developer - brin...

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New international train service for Detroit? // Detroit City council districts changing

00:55 – The internet is abuzz from a Canadian report that there’s possibly a new international train service from Toronto through Detroit to Chicago coming. We discuss the proposal plans; the hurdles as it’s still early; and what could be next. Here’s background with the original report: https://www.iheartradio.ca/am800/news/dilkens-believes-amtrak-via-rail-link-is-an-exciting-opportunity-1.20532111 09:06 -Then, by listener request, we’re talking about the three current proposals for...

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New Biggby Coffeeshop is open on Livernois between 6 & 7 Mile in Detroit

A quick tip for you from the border of Detroit’s University District and the Bagley neighborhood. The Biggby we had previously reported was coming to 18685 Livernois is now open. The same folks own it as the location in Ferndale at Livernois and 9 Mile. If you’ve been to a Biggby, you know what’s in this store. This is similar to the ones I’ve been to in the past. Lots of coffee drinks like lattes and freezes. Light food options, all of that. The location seemed to be doing ste...

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Your City 5 Things To Do This Weekend In Detroit: August 3-5

Hello all you lovely readers. I’m sure that some of you might have been wondering where in the world the City 5 has been lately. I had an unexpected loss in my family that has really thrown me for a loop. The City 5 is one of my favorite things to write every week, and I take pride in curating my top 5 things to do every weekend. Let’s just say, it’s good to be back and feeling like going out again. Chevrolet Rockin on the Riverfront – Starship Featuring Mickey Thomas Nothing is going t...

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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...

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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...

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Listen: Detroit's Fitzgerald Neighborhood Gets Attention With Ambitious Fitz Forward Project

One of the popular narratives of Detroit’s comeback is that it doesn’t include the neighborhoods. But a program, Fitz Forward, is over by McNichols (Six Mile) and Livernois is solidly in the Detroit neighborhoods and there are big plans in motion. You can listen to the story in the player above and there’s a map, pictures, and renderings below. There will be more than 300 parcels involved. More than 100 vacant, mostly historic homes will be repaired and remodeled. Those that can no...

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Top Two Floors Of Michigan Central Station Planned As Residential

Have you ever dreamt of living on the top floors of the old train station in Detroit? That could be a real thing. In an interview with Roger Gaudette, director of Detroit operations for Ford Land (that’s Ford’s real estate arm) on our Daily Detroit News Byte podcast, he outlined the beginnings of restoration plans and some of the nuts and bolts steps of restoring Michigan Central Depot. Those including spending the first year putting on new roofs and repairing the exterior skin of the bui...

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Keith Crain’s Editorial On Bike Lanes In Detroit Is Out Of Touch And Reeks Of Privilege. Here's Why.

If you want to be a city of tomorrow, you need to have the building blocks for it. And tomorrow — even today, as Ford and General Motors have acknowledged with their recent investments in mobility — involves many different kinds of transportation options. Keith Crain’s editorial on June 17, “Say goodbye to the Motor City” was emblematic of old Detroit thinking. Detroit thinking from the world of 1950, not 2018. Lots of Detroit’s leaders talk about bringing back the city’s glory days. To me,...

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Checking In On The City Modern Development In Brush Park

The Brush Park neighborhood is pretty unrecognizable since the work began on Bedrock’s City Modern development. On Monday I checked out the progress on the two apartment buildings that Sachse Construction is managing inside the City Modern development. The first building I toured was the senior apartment building at 124 Alfred Street. It is kitty corner to the famous Ransom Gillis House that Rehab Addict’s Nicole Curtis recently did. The apartments in the building will offer...

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PODCAST: Meet The Man Chronicling All Of Detroit's Beautiful Street Murals, Viranel Clerard

Detroit is becoming a mecca for murals. Our guest on the Daily Detroit Happy Hour today is aiming to catalog it all. Viranel Clerard is the man behind the Detroit Mural Project, which you can find on the Internet machine at detroitmurals.com. The site organizes murals by neighborhood and includes a description of the artist and who it was commissioned by, when known, a link to the artist’s Instagram page, and location of the mural. He saves his commentary about the murals mostly fo...

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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...

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Check Out Detroit By Going On One Of These 7 Jane's Walks

Every year thousands of people around the world take to streets to learn a bit more about a particular neighborhood. These events are known as Jane’s Walk in honor of Jane Jacobs who was an urbanist and writer. She believed that cities were complex and needed a good population density to succeed. Cities need to be walkable and have public spaces for people who lived there. She also believed that mixed use planning was important. If these words sound familiar, they should. If you have been pa...

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Giant RoboCop Statue Will Be Installed At The Michigan Science Center

It’s been a project that’s been teased for years – since 2011, in fact. A giant RoboCop statue in the city of Detroit. We gave an in-depth update quite awhile ago, but we have new news to share. According to an update posted to the project’s Kickstarter page, RoboCop will call the Michigan Science Center in Detroit’s Midtown home. A deal was signed Wednesday and an unveiling date will be given this spring, and parts of RoboCop will be shown off at a private event this spring. …throu...

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Happy Hour Podcast: The Future Of Detroit City FC w/ CEO & Co-Founder Sean Mann

“There’s not a lot of small business owners out there who wake up in the morning knowing that there’s three billionaires teamed up who potentially are working against you on a daily basis, right? So that certainly weighs on us. But it’s also the realization that yes, in the legal standpoint, as a Michigan L.L.C. we own equity in this corporation, but we have definitely come to the realization that we’re stewards of something bigger than what this legal entity is. It’s a movement.” – Sean Mann...

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The Platform Buys Lakeshore Global Building At Grand Boulevard & Woodward

Detroit real estate developer The Platform has bought another large building, adding to a growing portfolio of properties it plans to renovate in the New Center area. The company said Wednesday it has purchased the eight-story Lakeshore Global Building at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard. Plans call for upgrading the 240-thousand square-foot building … which is currently 60 percent occupied … and getting it ready for full occupancy for office and retail tenants. The build...

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