Electronic music is one of the only things that is almost as quintessentially Detroit as an American-made car. Fortunately, whether or not you’re going to the Movement festival, there is plenty going on this weekend.
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Advocates, volunteers, and municipal officials came together to unanimously push back on a proposal by the Michigan Department of Transportation to widen a section of US-23 between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. The agency finally backed down and says it is exploring alternatives that do not involve widening the roadway. Success.
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Industrialized and modular construction have a lot of potential to help fix the housing market. The value proposition is pretty simple. Realizing it, however, is a much heavier lift.
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Grand Rapids, the clean-cut, straight-laced, kinda conservative cousin of Detroit from farm country, just passed a groundbreaking zoning reform package. Will Detroit follow suit?
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Downtown Austin offered a glimpse at the gleaming towers of corporate glory, while on the far eastern reaches of the city, a site once operated by TxDOT now hosts an emergency shelter that has been creatively redeveloped by a diverse and entrepreneurial team of practitioners.
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If you’re in Detroit for the 2024 NFL Draft, make sure you actually explore outside downtown. There’s plenty more to do, plenty to see, and much good food to be et [sic].
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Nat returns to his old stomping grounds in North Minneapolis, a.k.a. Juxtaposition Arts, to scan the product of their multimillion dollar capital campaign.
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You can use the iPhone instead of the iPad Pro to scan using a Matterport camera. It works great– with a few caveats.
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Fraunhofer, Signetron, RMI, and ADL Ventures talked about energy efficiency in building retrofits at a recent webinar.
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Housing abundance advocates have set their sights on a relatively esoteric hindrance to development that, they say, unnecessarily drives up costs without improving occupant safety: fire code.
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