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These Are Our 5 Favorite Donut Shops In Metro Detroit

In honor of National Donut Day, we at the Daily Detroit podcast are sharing our favorite five donut spots. We know there’s more out there, so if you have a favorite be sure to share this post and tag that spot on Facebook. Dutch Girl Donuts A Detroit tradition. Near 7 Mile and Woodward, the place slings donuts like no other. Yes, we went through the trouble of ranking their individual donuts, they’re so good. 19000 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48203 Donut Cutter...

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Behind The Strike At The Book Cadillac Hotel, Flex-N-Gate Opens, Motorama Motel Price Update, Palmer Park & Your News

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/7144437/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/0c71d2/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]On the Daily Detroit Podcast today: – Flex N Gate opens on the east side of Detroit, hiring 50% Detroit residents into jobs. Looking for a job yourself? Here’s a link to job training at Detroit At Work. – We hit the streets...

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PICS: Inside The Newly Renovated Westin Southfield Hotel

The Westin Southfield has undergone a $14 million renovation that officially opened last week. We went to the event and talked with Bryan Best, the sales manager of the hotel. Daily Detroit: So what’s exciting about the Westin Southfield Detroit renovation? Best: A lot of great things have happened with us at the Westin Southfield with the renovation. $14 million and it’s done a lot of phenomenal things for us. From a full guest room renovation, corridors to get your guest room, some...

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Meetups: Your Networking 5 For The Week Of March 13-19

Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to your weekly installment of Networking 5. This week is filled with opportunities to get out there and meet new people. BIZ Connect: Meet and Greet with the Detroit Police Department The next Downtown BIZ Connect is this week. So if you work, play or stay in downtown Detroit then you might be interested in swinging by the event. During the meet and greet with the Detroit Police Department. You’ll get a chance to meet some of the men and women who are patr...

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7 Of Detroit's Best Chefs Come Together For An Evening Of Awesome Food To Help Raise Money For Detroit Prep

What happens when seven of Detroit’s best chefs come together to cook? Well, first of all I’m pretty sure that the food is going to be amazing. And secondly, there is probably a really cool reason that they are all cooking together. On Monday, April 30 that is exactly what is going to happen at the Great Lakes Culinary Center in Southfield. And it is for a really great cause. The Chef’s Schoolyard is a fundraiser for Detroit Prep in Indian Village. The free charter school is trying...

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UberEATS Food Delivery Service Launches In Metro Detroit

Detroit’s a geographically spread out region. So running to your favorite restaurant to pick something up might be a bit of a chore — or time you just don’t have between shifts or when you know you’re going to have to stay late. Now, food might just be a tap of an app away if you’re in the city of Detroit some of the more inner ring suburbs. Today ride sharing company Uber announced that they’re launching their food delivery service UberEATS in Detroit. This is the 100th city that they have...

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5 Cool Baby Stores Around Metro Detroit That Aren't Big Boxes

Are you a soon to be mom looking for cool things for the nursery? Maybe you are in need for a cool baby gift for a baby shower, but you don’t want to shop at a big box store? If this sounds like you, then I have you covered. Having a toddler means I have spent my fair share shopping for all kinds of things for him. Most of the time I look to small businesses to purchase items because I like supporting local mom and pop stores. Like all of our lists, I have personally visited each store on...

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Here Are The Top 10 Public High Schools With The Best Teachers In Metro Detroit

The education ratings site Niche.com has come out with their top teachers in Michigan, and many of those schools are in Metro Detroit. For the purposes of this post, we’re going to call Metro Detroit the tri-county area of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties. The data speaks directly to public schools. They came to their rankings through a combination of publicly available data as well as reviews by their Niche.com site users. In order of importance, Niche used the factors of Academics, Pa...

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Resurfacing Of 8 Mile Between Woodward And M-39 Begins Tonight

A $5.1 million project by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will begin resurfacing 8 Mile Road (M-102) between Woodward Ave. (M-1) and the Southfield Freeway (M-39). The construction kicks off tonight, Monday, August 14 at 7 p.m. and will run through late October. All told, there will be 4.6 miles of 8 Mile Road resurfaced. According to MDOT information relayed by the city of Ferndale, the work will consist of removing and replacing the road surface, repairing joints and cra...

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The 9 Epic Metro Detroit Delis You Should Visit

There’s nothing like an excellent deli sandwich. It’s perfection between two slices of bread. And Detroit has some amazing delis if you know where to look. Over the last few weeks I dragged my family and friends all over the Detroit area eating sandwich after sandwich in the name of finding the Metro Detroit delis that really stand out in my mind over the rest. Enjoy and eat up, Detroit! 1. Ernie’s Market – Oak Park Living so close to Ernie’s is a blessing and a curse. Knowing this del...

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Southfield Gets A Giant Robotic Arm In The Middle Of Telegraph Road

Metro Detroit seems to have a thing for arms in the middle of roads. Downtown Detroit has a giant bronze fist in the intersection of Jefferson and Woodward, and now the suburb of Southfield has a robotic arm with a 7-foot reach in the middle of Telegraph Road. It was installed as reminder to all who come to the city that Southfield stands as a “technological corridor.” Robots like it (although, they function as opposed to this one that does not) make the Chrysler 200 in Sterling Heights. The...

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Detroit Suburb Ranked As A Top 10 Small City To Start A Business In U.S.

Personal finance site NerdWallet looked at 463 U.S. cities with populations of 50,000 to 100,000 people to determine where the best business opportunities are. Out of these 463 cities, the Michigan city of Troy, a suburb of Detroit in Oakland County, came in fourth in the nation. The site says that of the keys to Troy’s placement in the list is Automation Alley, a business accelerator and association of tech companies. Automation Alley aims to diversify the city’s economy and move it away fr...