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Detroit Is The Worst City In America To Find A Job, Says Report

We all know that although the streetlights are back on in the city, and there have been various signs of progress, there is still a lot of work to be done when it comes to Detroit’s comeback. The city of Detroit (we reached out and double checked with Wallethub that it was the city proper) ranks dead last (150 of 150) in the nation for employment opportunity, according to a report by Wallethub and reported by national outlets. The analysis compared 150 of the most populated U.S. cities acros...

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WATCH: A Loving Look At Detroit's Corktown Neighborhood

There’s a lot going on in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. But what’s actually happening on the ground? The seven minute video above takes a little bit of a look under the hood. “Where” is the beginnings of a new video series produced by Zach Lewis. “I am originally from Philly and a lot of people I talk to from home, and out of state, have this idea that Detroit is constantly dangerous, or that it’s an undesirable place to live,” said Lewis to Daily Detroit. “I wanted to create a video that...

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So The New York Times Says You Should Visit Detroit. Here Are The 52 Places To Go

We were as pumped as anyone about the New York Times putting Detroit at the number nine spot out of 52 places to go in 2017. They highlight some of the things that are well-known to us locally. That the DIA is amazing, highlighting it with their photo; that the Q-LINE is coming; that the Detroit Pistons are moving downtown. Detroit has continued to get more national attention as of late, especially from travel press. But our fair city has a lot of places to visit. Where should you go if you’...

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PODCAST: Changing lives inside and outside the ring at the Downtown Boxing Gym

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We're supposed to have working streetlights

This week came the news that the $185 million relighting program for Detroit’s streetlights is complete. It’s not that the city being re-wired and re-lit with LED streetlights is a bad thing. It’s a very good step forward. It seems to have been quite the effort over multiple years to make it happen, involving the hard work of many organizations like DTE Energy, the Public Lighting Authority, and countless people. More details are here, but here’s the main point: On Thursday, December 15, t...

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For every step forward, Detroit has to be wary of taking multiple steps back

There is so much good going on in Detroit right now. The M1 Rail is on the tracks as we speak, being tested for operation. The Detroit Pistons are slated to move downtown, creating huge synergy among the city’s sports teams. Businesses are opening with such regularity that it’s becoming difficult to keep track. Housing is starting to show improvement with new developments like the one in Brush Park and major lenders moving into Detroit with budgets for rehab and more. This is where you start t...

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New baby boutique Little High Flyers in Midtown aiming to take off

Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time. On Thursday I needed to be in Midtown for the Treymore Apartment building ribbon cutting, but I was really early. I decided to take a few laps around the neighborhood to check out all of the new things going on down there. What should I see out of the corner of my eye as I made my way up Cass but a new store called Little High Flyers. The new store is sandwiched between Source Bookstore and Hugh. Immediately I knew I needed to come...

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Vacant for more than 20 years, the Treymore finds new life as affordable housing

There’s a lot of talk on the high price end about Detroit real estate as of late, especially in the Midtown neighborhood. But here’s something different. The four-story Treymore building just went through a $7 million redevelopment project and now has 28 one and two bedroom apartments for low income occupants. The 1900s era building on Brainard had been abandoned for more than 20 years before Paradise Valley Investment Group (PVI) stepped up and bought the building for renovation. “Rest...

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Oakland Avenue Urban Farm to add hostel, dining hall, gallery and more as part of new food and culture hub

Detroit’s farming and culture scene continues to grow. Thanks to $500,000 in funding from ArtPlace America, the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm over the next two years is going to transform in what organizers are naming America’s first “Agri-Cultural” urban landscape. The project will start in January of 2017 and when they’re done, the plan is to have a five acre landscape combining “art, architecture, sustainable ecologies, and new market practices while exploring methods for equitable, art-centere...

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Tech companies are expanding in the Detroit area, but have trouble finding people with the right skills

The technology sector is expanding in Metro Detroit and continuing to hire people, says a report released Thursday by Robert Half. However, those companies are having trouble finding people with the right skills for those jobs. “We’re seeing more technology companies expanding their local presence or launching new websites in the Detroit area,” said Stacey Singleton, regional vice president of Robert Half Technology. “Software engineers, data architects, business intelligence analysts and netw...

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Take a look at the new Tesla gallery just a mile from the Detroit auto dealers HQ

Without fanfare or much coverage in the local media, Tesla has opened a new “gallery” to showcase their cars just a mile down Big Beaver from the headquarters of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) in the Detroit suburb of Troy. We decided to head up to Somerset Collection (“collection” is the buzzword for a high-end mall) and take a look at the 700 square foot space nestled inside the first level of the Nordstrom store. And the word “nestled” is appropriate. At first glance, if you’...

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Miniature golf course on verge of being built in Detroit's North End neighborhood

Up on Oakland Avenue and Clay, it looks like seven vacant lots in the city of Detroit are about to be turned into a miniature golf course. There’s a crowdfunding campaign that was launched Thursday to raise the final $5,000 required for 4Ward Phoenix Miniature Golf, described as a safe and secure 18-hole mini golf course with ample parking, lighting and benches. If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding goal of $5,000 by January 16, 2017. Who is putting this thing together is a bit unique. Th...

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VIDEO: Shinola commercial set in Detroit's Cass Corridor features Third Man Records

Shinola has a new-ish commercial out along with Third Man Records set in the Cass Corridor (part of the larger area often referred to as Midtown) and talking about Detroit music, with the aim of pushing Shinola’s new audio line. Three songs featured in the 90 second piece are While You Were Gone by The Combinations, Gotta Let You Know by James T. Cotton, and On the Run by The Gories. It’s set mostly in the Cass Corridor Third Man Records store. The commercial (embedded below) has some visual...

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Tuition-free, four year college now available to Detroit high school students

One of the challenges Detroit faces is education. Not just when it comes to local schools, but the low level of college graduates in the city of Detroit. And nowadays, you most likely need more than a high school education (whether it college or specialized training) to get a good job. Just 13.1 percent of city residents, per the latest U.S. Census, have a college degree. That compares to 26.4 percent in the state of Michigan, and 29.3 percent nationally. Detroit Promise, launched in March o...

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Two projects in Detroit aiming to increase access to healthy food & spur economic development receive $75,000

Imagine what it would be like to want an apple, a pear, a banana or carrots, peas, or, yes, even broccoli, and there was no place to get them. That’s what more than 1.8 million Michigan residents, including 300,000 children, face every day, according to the Michigan Good Food Fund. They live in lower‐income communities with limited access to the fruits and vegetables they need to be healthy and avoid serious illnesses such as obesity. Limited access to the right foods goes hand-in-hand with...

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Corktown-a-Glow is a brand new event for the holidays showcasing Detroit's oldest neighborhood

On Saturday, December 10, businesses in the Corktown neighborhood in Detroit are throwing an event to bring in and welcome shoppers, diners and visitors from around the region. This will be the first year of “Corktown-a-Glow,” complete with a Corktown tree lighting ceremony at Bagley and Trumbull. Quite a few businesses are participating in the event that will run from noon to 6 p.m. There will be a complimentary shuttle supplied by the Nemo’s stopping at various businesses. They are the D...

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Peek Into History With These 10 Wigglegrams From 1880s Detroit

Detroit’s history as a city spans more than 300 years. Photography was only available for a portion of that time. Today, we’re going to look at stereoscopic images. See, before fancy virtual reality technology, there were stereoscopes. These were simple devices with special lenses that make the image seen through it appear larger and more distant. Often, the image is shifted to the left or right. If you have normal vision out of two eye, you could create a depth of field – or trick your eyes...

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PICS, RENDERINGS: Large Brush Park project to start construction next week

The Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit at one time was full of the stately homes of some of the big leaders in the city. There was a ton of buzz about the rehabilitation of the Ransom Gillis house last year, but there’s more to what’s going to happen to the neighborhood just east of Woodward and steps from the new Little Caesars Arena and the new QLINE. Later this week major construction will kick off on what some estimate to be a $70 million or more investment into an area just larger than...