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
Read MoreYesterday, the Detroit City Council deferred a vote to lavish public subsidies on a new project of the healthcare industrial
Read MoreAn uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
Read MoreThe governor wants to figure out a strategy to grow the state. It’s going to have to start with investing in things that matter to real people, rather than things that matter to quarterly earnings reports for automakers. But it’s not that gloomy. There’s plenty of opportunity to think about how to do this.
Read MoreGreg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West
Read MoreThe Blue Oval scores another kind of big, fat, blue oval, rotated 90°, for its commitment to walkability and bikeability in the new Michigan Central Station project.
Read MoreMartha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.
Read MoreEconomic development is good, right? Well, perhaps not so much if it involves infuriating local residents with noise or point source air or thermal pollution.
Read MoreAmazon is committed to a money-losing strategy to try and cop rural market share. But it’s not exactly a great deal for consumers, either. Looking at some examples from Maine and an example from California, we can learn a bit about the challenges facing retail in rural communities as well as how Amazon is (maybe) thinking about this issue.
Read MoreAt the Grand Prix, presented by [Car Company] on Belle Isle, we enjoyed pulled pork nachos, sunshine, and a haze of particulate emissions.
Read MoreAn academic paper looks at the Detroit Community Benefits Ordinance, or CBO. Conclusions? It’s had mixed success. We can get beyond this if we stop thinking about public policy in the simplistic terms of “pro” or “anti” development.
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