The Ilitch Crusade Continues: When Is Enough Enough?
The latest Ilitch demolition has us all scratching our heads and wondering when we will deserve a better city– for buildings, for historic preservation, and, of course, for Detroiters.
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Historic preservation
Matterport 101 – Three Unusual Use Cases
The Matterport platform offers plenty of opportunities well outside the realm of simply creating virtual tours for real estate listings.
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“Detroit: Become Livonia” – Mike Duggan
Detroit’s mayor has a vision for the city. It involves a lot of parking lots, and a lot of low-wage jobs. But there’s a better way.
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Postcards from Dubuque: Then and Now
A parable of delicious mini-donuts and– stories about those who came before the mini-donuts.
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Dubuque’s Eagle Point Park: Alfred Caldwell’s Unsung Masterpiece
Nat tours Eagle Point Park with Dubuque city planner Chris Olson and Heritage Works’ Duane Hagerty.
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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions
The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.
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Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project
Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project
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Major Home Repair: To Go Gas-Free, Perchance To Dream?
Is it worth the premium to go electric? Maybe– if you have a good excuse to, like part of your house falling down. But it’s still going to run you a pretty penny.
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Well, this is awful. Today, developer Emmett Moten began demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night Building. This will give him
Read MoreSaturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.
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