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More Luxury Living, This Time In The Form Of Condos, Coming To Downtown

The first standalone condominium project in 20 years in Downtown Detroit is laying plans for construction. The $35 million, 11-story residence will be built next year on the parking lot next to the studios of WDIV-TV Channel 4. The Ashton Detroit, as the new building will be called, will have the latest in luxury living with high-end finishes, a pool, a fitness center, retail space, and enclosed parking. The existing building at 600 W. Lafayette will be upgraded to Class A office space. “We...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Weekend Of September 9-11

If you are looking for some fun things to do this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Whether you are trying to hold on to the last bits of summer, or have welcomed all things fall there is something to do in metro Detroit. Dally In The Alley – Detroit It is hard to believe, but Dally in the Alley has been around for 39 years. If you’re unfamiliar with Dally, it is a community street fair that celebrates life in the Cass Corridor. It is the big event in the city this weekend. It will be fille...

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Detroit’s Surveillance Program Expands, Partners With Comcast To Lower Costs

When it comes to reducing crime in the city of Detroit, the Duggan administration is banking on the idea that better technology is going to help. The city announced today that at a Valero gas station on Telegraph in Detroit that Project Green Light is now partnering with Comcast to make the camera systems more affordable. Initially, the program cost $6,000 up front to join and connect to the city’s real time crime center. Now, the technology giant Comcast is offering eligible businesses the...

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Detroit's Historic East Side Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood Gets National Treasure Status

Today was a good day in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood of Detroit. The east side neighborhood, situated just before the Grosse Pointe Border, the Detroit river, and Jefferson Avenue, was named one of the United States National Treasures from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This is the first National Treasure site in Detroit and in the state of Michigan. It is also the first time that an entire neighborhood has been given this status. The National Trust has also announced a...

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Need A Job? Pink Slip Party Returns To Detroit's Majestic Sept. 15

Imagine a networking event that’s also actually fun. It’s a rarity, right? If you’re in the I.T. (information technology) or other tech-related space – and looking for a job – then this may be the event for you. The IT in the D Pink Slip Party is returning to the Majestic Theatre on Thursday, September 15 starting at 5 p.m. As many as a thousand people have shown up in the past for what could be Detroit’s largest regular networking event. The organization has been doing networking events s...

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9 Labor Day Facts That Might Surprise You

We all know that Labor Day happens on the first Monday in September. For many of us, it’s a break from work or school and a last chance to squeeze in a vacation before the fall work grind arrives – but the holiday has a lot of meaning. The history of Labor Day is, not surprisingly, influenced by organized labor in more ways than one. From its murky beginnings to its lasting legacy, check out these nine cool facts about Labor Day. 1. The founder of Labor Day is disputed There’s a disput...

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All This Was Trees, And Now It May Be Again – Apple Trees, That Is

A few years ago, famous street artist Banksy painted at the Packard Plant on the east side of Detroit a piece that said, “I Remember When All This Was Trees.” Banksy was right. At one point, that’s what this area was before industrial production filled Detroit’s landscape, for a time, with factories and smokestacks. The area also had fertile soil that the French farmers in the early 1800s said was so good they didn’t even have to work to raise crops. Well, the trees may well be here again. D...

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Dr. Stein From Green Party, Republican Nominee Trump To Be In Detroit On Same Day

Detroit’s going to play host to not one, but two, presidential candidates on Saturday, September 3 – both at establishments headed by African-Americans. The Green Party is going to have a rally with their presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, at Bert’s Warehouse in Eastern Market (2739 Russell Street in Detroit), along with her VP pick, Ajamu Baraka. The event will run from noon to 3:00 p.m. Press folks from the campaign tell Daily Detroit in an email that they “will speak on how the Green...

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8 Detroit Developments This Week + Bonus Eye Candy - August 29, 2016 Edition

If it seems as if it’s almost every day there are multiple announcements of what’s happening in downtown Detroit, you’d be right. The pace of new (and replacement) development is starting to accelerate to an intense pace. Whether it’s food options, new housing – or something else – it’s head-spinning. Let’s get started. Our last edition was six days ago, and you can see it here. 1+2. Two New Buildings In Capitol Park Downtown Detroit’s starting to fill in those awful tiny parking lots. T...

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$2 Million Given To 20 Programs That Help Provide Food Access And Security In Detroit

Many people have to deal with the task of choosing between purchasing the basic necessity or purchasing food. Food insecurity, a hidden struggle, exists unknowingly in many of our community. The two groups that are most affected by this are children and seniors and more than 780,000 people do not have consistent access to healthy food. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan plans to help decrease this rising issue by awarding $2 million in grants to 20 programs designed to improve hea...

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Vacant St. Mary's School In Greektown To Become Jack Entertainment Headquarters

On what is basically Detroit’s Bourbon Street of Monroe Avenue, there has been a lot of investment as late, whether it’s through Greektown Casino (soon to be known early next year as JACK Detroit Casino-Hotel Greektown), the new Wahlburgers, or the litany of restaurants, some of which have been there for many years (like Pegasus Taverna, for more than a quarter century).   Next up to find new life is the St. Mary’s School, across from St. Mary’s church in Greektown. The building has been vac...

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Bike Lanes, Other Changes Are Being Tested On Livernois ‘Avenue of Fashion’

The City of Detroit is conducting a demonstration project on a roughly half-mile stretch of Livernois Avenue to test the idea of calming traffic, installing bike lanes and making other improvements to give a boost to businesses in the city’s so-called “Avenue of Fashion.” Crews have installed orange barrels, temporary signage and rubber crosswalk mats, with lines temporarily painted on the pavement to mark bike lanes and a barrier from the parking lanes, which take up one of two lanes of traff...

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Tony Hawk, Skateboarder Extraordinaire, Buys A House In Detroit

Whether it’s seeing Jack White out and about, or a glimpse of Eminem, or stopping into Wahlburger to catch a glimpse of Mark Wahlberg, judging the the reaction online most of us can’t get enough. Here’s the latest entry in Detroit celebrity watching. Tony Hawk – whose wife is from Michigan – just bought a house in the Woodbrige Neighborhood of Detroit. Curbed says it’s from 1900, and the Freep says that it’s a three unit house, with two of the units up for rental (There’d be a set of Airbnb tr...

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Detroit Hydrofest Returns This Weekend With Free Friday

This weekend, head over to the Detroit Riverfront for some family-friendly fun and lots of boat races as part of the nation’s longest continuously running unlimited hydroplane race. The 100th Annual UAW-GM Detroit Hydrofest starts Friday, August 26 and ends Sunday, August 28. In 1916, the first sanctioned hydroplane race took place on the Detroit River, and it’s been a staple of Detroit tradition ever since. The event has come a long way since 1916, and it now includes Free Friday. Free F...

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Former Synagogue, Then Church, Now Looks To Find A Third Act As A Community Center

For 21 years Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation (CDC) has been dedicated to central Detroit communities and local residents. The organization strives to empower people and create positive opportunities through multiple services and programs allowing residents in the community to reach their highest potentials. Within this last year the CDC purchased a former synagogue built in 1924 located at 1550 Taylor (just north and west of Henry Ford Hospital) for a neighborhood c...

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Before There Was A Detroit Institute Of Arts, There Was The Detroit Museum Of Art

The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the buildings that seems to have always been part of Detroit. Its cultural importance and clout make it an important fixture of Detroit history, but the DIA as we know it only came along in 1927. Up until that time, Detroiters visited the Detroit Museum of Art, located at 704 E. Jefferson Avenue. While the museum only served the city for 40 years, its impact is unmistakable and laid the foundation for the DIA. The Detroit Museum of Art opened in 1888....

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What Does Detroit's Motto Mean, Anyway? And Is It Still Relevant Today?

It’s funny how much the past can inform the future. Take the City of Detroit’s motto. It’s inspiring, timeless, and sobering, especially when you consider how it uncannily fit Detroit’s difficult 2013. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Detroit’s motto is “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus,” which translates to “We hope for better things; it shall arise from the ashes.” The city’s motto was penned by Father Gabriel Richard after a terrible fire swept through Detroit on June 11, 1805. There...

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Your City 5: Things To Do In Detroit For The Week Of August 19-21

Sadly, it looks like the weekends of summer things to do are starting to come to an end. We’re only a couple away from hitting September in Detroit, but we’re not ready to give up on the summer fun yet. We’ve got everything from a world festival to a 14 hour dance party to an art walk and more. So get it! 34th Annual African World Festival – The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History  The African World Festival is a three day festival that is packed full with musical performan...