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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.

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Matterport 101 – Three Unusual Use Cases

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments afro deli, afro deli st. paul, dubuque, ford motor company, ilitch, matterport, matterport camera, matterport pro 2, mattertag, Michigan Central Station, moten, saturday night building detroit, use cases for matterport

The Matterport platform offers plenty of opportunities well outside the realm of simply creating virtual tours for real estate listings.

A screenshot of a tweet of a Local WDIV Channel 4 news van blocking the two-way bike lanes on Bagley Avenue in Southwest Detroit near the MIchigan Central Station project on a chilly and overcast fall evening.

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What, Me Block A Bike Lane? Trouble at Ford’s Ziggurat of Mobility

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bagley st., bike lane, bike lanes, detroit police, detroit police department, economic development, Ford, ford motor company, liberty sheet metal, mannik smith, mcs, michigan central, Michigan Central Station, protected bike lanes, public safety, safe streets, sharrow, sharrows, street safety, traffic control devices, traffic enforcement

The 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.

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