RenCen: It’s Time For Detroit To Reject Silver Bullet Thinking.
The Gilbert regime has finally released its preliminary proposals to redevelop Detroit’s iconic Renaissance Center, which it purchased from General
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Tour Ford’s New Michigan Central Project With Matterport
Ford’s Michigan Central Station is finally finished. It opens to the public on June 6th, 2024, but since tickets are sold out, you can still take a virtual tour here.
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Billionaire Owner of Losing Sports Team Wants More Handouts
Yesterday, the Detroit City Council deferred a vote to lavish public subsidies on a new project of the healthcare industrial
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Better Cities Film Festival and YIMBY in Detroit
YIMBY enthusiasts from Columbus, North Carolina, California, Flint, and beyond converged on Detroit yesterday evening to see a new film featuring M. Nolan Gray, Research Director of California YIMBY.
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City of Detroit: Just Kidding, We Do Have A Secret MOU With The Ilitches and Morouns.
The City of Detroit responded to a long-outstanding FOIA request and conceded that, yes, they do have a secret memorandum of understanding with a couple of the city’s most delinquent landowners. It’s not surprising. It’s just obnoxious that they told me the exact opposite before.
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