Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Texas de Brazil Coming to Compuware
The Brazilian churrascaria-style steak house chain is slated to open April May, 2011 in the former Borders Books location inside of the Compuware Building. Texas de Brazil provides fixed-price dinners for a 50 to 60 item bar of salads and appetizers, plus all-you-can-eat roasted meats, continuously carved off long skewers onto guests’ plates by servers.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Plan To Turn Free Press Building Into Condos Revived
It looks like Detroit Paper Place 2.0. is finally, slowly, moving forward. The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved incentive financing on a $70 million plan to turn the vacant Free Press building into residential apartments, office and retail space, as well as a health club on the upper floor.
The project still needs to find market rate financing, but the developers are hopeful. They believe that construction will begin in 2011.
The project still needs to find market rate financing, but the developers are hopeful. They believe that construction will begin in 2011.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Another Loss in Rivertown
You had to see this one coming. The back of this building at Franklin and St. Aubin collapsed prior to March of 2009. The city finally got around to demolishing it this past May. All that remains is a hole in the ground.
Detroit Photo Heat Map
Locals and Tourists #82 (GTWA #134): Detroit, originally uploaded by Eric Fischer.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Monica Conyers Wants More Time
Monica Conyers wants to delay the start of her federal prison sentence by three months. In a court filing Conyers declared that she wants to help a close family member who's having surgery in late July.
Conyers' appeal of her sentence is still pending in federal court.
Conyers' appeal of her sentence is still pending in federal court.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Oneida Jackson: Free Press Copy Editor, Vandal!
Vandals mar new bridge in Detroit
Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News
Less than a day after it opened, the Mexicantown Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge was vandalized, Michigan Department of Transportation officials said....
In fact, MDOT video cameras caught one woman as she used a colored pen to scrawl on a bench in the middle of the 400-foot-long bridge.
"Yes, it was me," said Oneida Jackson, a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press and author of the Sunday's "O Street" blog.
"I did it. If you see a person with a green pen ... dressed in black slacks and a red top, that's me. I was excited about the event and wanted to put my name on it."
Jackson eventually put away the marker and said "Oh, I guess I shouldn't be doing this," the tape showed. As a blogger, she has written about her efforts as a mom to raise her 16-year-old son and encourage citizens to be more patient and civil.
From The Detroit News
Monday, April 26, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Faces of Matty
Joel Thurtell scorches Matty Moroun once more.
Faces of Matty from Joel On The Road.
It turns out that Mr. Moroun have given a gift to Windsor as well.
You can view some of the construction of Mr. Moroun's WINDSOR ramp to nowhere here.
Faces of Matty from Joel On The Road.
It turns out that Mr. Moroun have given a gift to Windsor as well.
You can view some of the construction of Mr. Moroun's WINDSOR ramp to nowhere here.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Madison-Lenox Hotel Demolition
Please check out the new sideshow covering the demolition of the Madison-Lenox Hotel that has been posted in the archives.
Matty Moroun and his big slice of Detroit
BY JOHN GALLAGHER/DETROIT FREE PRESS
Whether battling to keep control of Detroit's only bridge to Canada or sparring with neighbors over his blighted Michigan Central Station, businessman Manuel (Matty) Moroun faces a wealth of controversy.
It doesn't help his public image that he's rich, reclusive and he's suing the City of Detroit, the State of Michigan and the government of Canada, among others.
But when it comes to owning big chunks of real estate in Detroit's most depressed districts, Moroun sees no controversy. He is unabashedly proud of his record -- and thinks Detroiters should be, too....
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Henry Ford plans $500M hospital expansion, redevelopment in Detroit
Christina Rogers / The Detroit News
Henry Ford Health System is finalizing plans to make a $500 million investment in its flagship hospital in Detroit and expand the medical center's footprint across West Grand Boulevard, building a south campus with doctors' offices, research facilities and an education center....
The seven-hospital system also plans to lead a collaborative effort aimed at redeveloping a larger 300-acre section of Detroit's New Center neighborhood, turning it into a "Community Health Park." Henry Ford says it intends to work with developers to transform blighted land directly south of its hospital into a hub for mixed-use housing, retail and other commercial activity. It hopes these efforts will attract another $500 million in investment by outside residential and commercial developers.