dearborn - The Handbuilt City

greg mangan and juan gutierrez in the conference room at southwest detroit business association

Diesel Exhaust, Potholes, and A Vision of Better Commercial Corridors in Southwest Detroit

May 26, 2023May 24, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments conrail, corktown, csx, dearborn, Detroit, DIFT, economic development, freight rail, infrastructure, intermodal, intermodal freight, john kronk, mexicantown, norfolk southern, NSC, rail, Railroad, southwest detroit, southwest detroit business association, springwells, vernor, west vernor highway

Greg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West

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Real Estate Urban Planning Housing

Can Second-Floor Apartments Make A Comeback? A New SDBA Grant Program Thinks So.

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments construction, dearborn, flamingo vintage, ford motor company, greg mangan, historic, historic architecture, historic preservation, jamahl makled, juan gutierrez, matterport, Michigan Central Station, mixed-use, Nat Zorach, prehabbed, rehab, Renovation, richard kimo frederiksen, rouge river, sdba, sdba grant, southwest detroit, southwest detroit business association, storefront, storefront with apartments, storefronts, vernor highway, west vernor

An ambitious new program in Detroit seeks to provide $10,000 to property owners to renovate and rent out second-floor and third-floor apartments in mixed-use buildings along several major corridors in Southwest Detroit.

Detroit Historic preservation Mobility Transit infrastructure

Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project

September 22, 2020September 21, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adaptive reuse, biking, corktown, dearborn, Density, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, economic development, Ford, ford motor, historic preservation, land use planning, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, micromobility, mobility, Mobility Corridor, moroun, multi-modal transportation, new mobility, public transit, regional transit authority, RTA, scooters, southeast michigan, speculation, train station, train stations, trains, transit, transit infrastructure, trump, urban living

Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project

Urban Planning Burgerbanism

Burgerbanism: The Twelve Dishes Of Detroit Christmas

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments bangladeshi, black-owned business, dearborn, Detroit, dime store, downtown detroit, food, hamtramck, ima detroit, livernois corridor, livernois streetscaping, michigan avenue, ottava via, peso bar, rock city eatery, sheeba, som tam, southwest detroit, yemeni

At the risk of seeming like all I do is think about parking lots and protected bike lanes (which, admittedly,