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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Another pointless death at a gas station in Southwest Detroit highlights, well, we’re not really sure what anymore. Something bad, certainly.
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Greg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West
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The advent of warm weather! The return of street fairs! The sniffles from spring allergies! And ever so much more.
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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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As many of you know, or don’t, I got engaged in September! Yes, folks– if someone thinks they can put
Read MoreWalking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager
Read MoreBurgerbanism is an ongoing, however infrequent, series on restaurants and their architectural, economic, and social context in cities. Â A sticky
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The billionaire Moroun family’s trucking empire, which also owns the Ambassador Bridge, is pushing for a controversial zoning measure that would allow them to develop a trucking depot in Southwest Detroit. Residents do not favor the effort, and the city has declined to enforce its own ordinances to stop them from starting development. (Guest piece by Dion Thompson-Davoli).
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The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?
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