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Kayne West's Life Of Pablo Pop-Up Store Coming To Detroit Area This Weekend

Kanye West is about to make a splash in Detroit, as well as 20 other cities across the world with a weekend-only pop-up of Life of Pablo, his retail concept that made huge waves in New York’s Bowery District. What will be in the stores? It looks like you may be able to get your Yeezus hoodie and more, per Vogue: Each city will have its name spelled out on tees and hoodies with Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s gothic script in a myriad of bold shades reminiscent of the collection West showed at Madiso...

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WATCH: Trailer For "This Old House" Episodes In Detroit Released

Earlier we blogged about the fact the PBS show “This Old House” was coming to Detroit. It’s an exciting development on a lot of levels. The show is a television institution. The series shows off the city – and it shows the rest of the world there’s life in Detroit outside of downtown. Now, Detroit Public Television has released a short one minute trailer where we get to take a look at the place and the condition inside. Those front windows are a cool detail! Check it out in the video above....

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City Of Detroit To File 597 Lawsuits Against Banks And Companies For Unpaid Property Taxes

One of the challenges of Detroit’s financial condition is that many have historically not paid property taxes. According to officials, the City of Detroit plans to file 597 lawsuits, against mostly banks and companies, to recover more than $12.2 million in unpaid property taxes. The average amount the city hopes to recoup per suit is $19,942 and $7,898 per parcel, covering 1,543 parcels. This week demand letters were sent to banks, investment companies and others, and plans to file all of...

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Detroit To Get New Chief Service Officer As Part Of Grant From JP Morgan Chase

The Duggan administration, thanks to a $100,000 grant as a participant in the JP Morgan Chase City of Service program, will be getting a new “Chief Service Officer.” According to information provided to the media today, here are details on the new position: The Chief Service Officer role is instrumental in building the city’s capacity to address its most pressing challenges. The role serves as a champion for citizen volunteers, a voice for the mayor, a partner to city agencies, and a conduit...

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USS Detroit Accepted by Navy

The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of the future USS Detroit during a ceremony on August 12 at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin. Detroit is the eighth littoral combat ship (LCS) to be delivered to the Navy and the fourth Freedom variant to join the fleet. LCS is a modular, reconfigurable ship, with three types of mission packages including surface warfare, mine countermeasures, and anti-submarine warfare. The USS Detroit is the seventh ship in a long line to b...

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Meet The 10 Businesses Looking For Your Vote To Win $50,000 Through Hatch Detroit

Hatch Detroit is one of Detroit’s most anticipated entrepreneurship competitions because the public has a huge say in which businesses will get a $50,000 and open in the City of Detroit or the enclaves of Hamtramck or Highland Park within the next year. This year’s class is no different – but the voting window is short. The primary voting period, from Aug 12-18, to determine the four finalists who will compete to win $50,000 from Comerica Bank and more than $200,000 in pro bono services from H...

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Detroit's Matrix Theatre Raising Money To Replace Necessary Equipment After Theft

One of the neat places you find in your travels around Detroit is the Matrix Theatre. For more than a quarter century, the theatre that’s on Bagley Street has provided professional and educational theatre opportunities for children and adults in isolated or challenged communities to become creators, producers, and audience of engaging theatre productions. It’s really a magical little place. However, on the night of August 8/morning of August 9, the theatre had the following items stolen, t...

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Manufacturer Of $35,000 Bikes And $6,250 Footballs Opening In Detroit

Detroit’s luxury goods manufacturing is about to go to another price level. One of the more active discussions as of late has been about Shinola, a high-end goods maker that makes $550 watches and $150 leather footballs – and their impact on the city. However, the reality is in the high-end watch market Shinola is on the lower end of the price scale. Williamson Goods is a new business created by Detroit Cass Tech and University of Michigan grad Shawn Ward, and inspired by the Hamptons. The...

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DTE Energy Donates $2.5 Million To Help Low Income Residents Pay Bills

Detroit-based DTE Energy announced today it donated $2.5 million to assist low-income residents in the city of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. The donation is expected to help encourage enrollment of nearly 3,000 customers in DTE’s Low-Income Self-Sufficiency Plan (LSP), aimed at providing relief to residents who are struggling to pay their energy bills. Detroit experienced its eighth-hottest July on record, with nine days of temperatures reaching at least 90 degrees. Extreme temperatures –...

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Meet The Man Who Shaped The Detroit River

We all want to leave our mark in this world. For some, it’s through academic pursuits. For others, it’s through art or good deeds. For William Livingstone, it was the creation of a critical channel in the Detroit River that would help speed shipping along the Great Lakes. William Livingstone was born in Dundas, Ontario on January 21, 1844. When he was five years old, his family moved to Detroit. In 1865, Livingstone opened his own business with help from his father. Livingstone & Company sta...

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From Bustling Factory To Abandoned Eyesore: The Story Of The Old AMC Headquarters In Detroit

The American Motors Corporation’s former headquarters at 14250 Plymouth Road is in limbo now. The property’s ownership will likely go to the Wayne County Land Bank before the end of the year. County officials have considered potential redevelopment options, but the solution they continue to return to is demolition. The building didn’t always stand desolate, ravaged, and silent. It was designed by Amedeo Leoni and built in 1927 as a new factory and administration building for the Kelvinator Cor...

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Group Plans To Build Human Wall Around Rencen For Trump Visit On Monday

Editor’s Note: The Trump speech on Monday has been moved from the Renaissance Center to Cobo Center.  Donald Trump (and his presidential campaign adversary Hillary Clinton) are locked in what could be arguably the most divisive presidential race in a long time. That energy is coming to Detroit’s Renaissance Center, where Republican nominee Donald Trump is speaking at a luncheon of the Detroit Economic Club. A Facebook event has popped up from a group called Cockroach Watch – and for a shor...

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9 Year Old Breaks Board, Learns Life Lesson In Moving Viral Video

The video named “Working Through Emotional Barriers,” shows instructor Shärath Jason Wilson comforting a tearful young boy named Bruce Collins III. Shot in the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy in the Midtown neighborhood of Detroit, the clip has garnered more than 1,000,000 views and counting, and touches on some of the issues facing people today. After attempting to break the board a few times, Collins finally does it but while crying. His instructor who has more than 20...

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25,000 Detroit Households Will Now Qualify For High Speed Internet For Less Than $10 A Month

Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) partnered to create a new initiative that’s working on closing the digital gap in America. Under the ConnectHome program, public housing and HUD-assisted residents living in Comcast’s service area are eligible to apply for Internet Essentials, the company’s high-speed internet adoption program for low-income families. An estimated two million HUD-assisted homes will now have access to low-cost internet service across the na...

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The Story Of The Davison, America’s First Urban Freeway

While freeways are pretty standard in American cities now, it wasn’t always that way. Instead of the ability to potentially go up to 70 miles an hour like on today’s highways, motorists had to use regular city streets to cross town. That was especially the case for motorists who wanted to cross Highland Park and enter Detroit. Everyone piled onto Davison Avenue, the only large street that ran through Highland Park and connected to Detroit running roughly east to west. The avenue and freeway wa...

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WATCH: Behind The Scenes With Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg Filming Transformers In Detroit

Take a look behind the scenes of Transformers: The Last Knight that has been shooting in downtown Detroit. The location is in what looks to be the Farwell building in Capitol Park from the stairwells, the window types and what’s seen outside the windows. In the ten minute video shared through Facebook Live last week, Director Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg (who is opening a Wahlburger in Greektown soon) and Jerrod Carmichael have a fun set of interactions, get in the way of a scene, and then...

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Deal Reached: The People Will Get To Vote On Detroit Regional Transit

We don’t know specifics yet, but multiple sources say there is finally a deal to put regional mass transit before the voters of Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland and Macomb counties. The mayor of the city of Detroit, sources close to the RTA as well as a major Detroit paper are saying that there has been a deal reached to get a proposal for funding the Regional Transit Authority through a millage on the November ballot after a meeting at the historic Detroit Athletic Club. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan...

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Detroit's Sister Pie Nominated For Best New Restaurant In U.S. By Bon Appetit Magazine

More plaudits and praise for a popular pie shop. Sister Pie, located in the West Village neighborhood of Detroit, started out with humble enough beginning – a woman with an audacious pie-making dream and focus to make it happen, raising multiple rounds of local funding (including with a dance party). Well, that sweat equity is turning into sweet success. The shop that opened last year has been nominated by Bon Appetit as one of the top 50 best new restaurants in America, with the announcemen...