Daily Detroit

Eastern Market is going through a lot of change. Shops are closing or moving. New land owners are moving in. Companies who have been in the market a long time need to expand. And at the center of it …

Just in time for the Mackinac Policy Conference, the Center for Michigan and its Bridge Magazine have a new report out all about Michigan’s abysmal roads. It’s titled Fixing Michigan’s Road Mess: The…

Spring is here! It’s the time of year where more people start to get out and about.

Because of that, bar and restaurant concepts are starting to get into swing and get some attention.

For today’s epi…

The Detroit Grand Prix is an annual event that brings nearly a hundred thousand people to the island, national television coverage and some charity dollars through their Grand Prixmere fundraiser.

Bu…

Welcome to the Hump Day edition of your Daily Detroit, in which we run down the news that businessman Roger Penske is pouring $5 million into the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood on Detroit’s east sid…

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and, more recently, the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in Grosse Pointe Farms are famed venues for jazz in Detroit. But another venue played a huge role in that scene for decades: the Bl…

Welcome to a Car-a-Palooza edition of your Daily Detroit.

Today, we dive into the news that Dan “Dantroit” Gilbert is lining up a petition drive effort to force the issue of reforming Michigan’s no-f…

Detroit’s had a long journey since it was founded as a frontier outpost by the French.

There’s been a lot of books about more recent Detroit history. Think 1900 forward. But not so many that look at …

On today’s episode, we speak with Casper van Alfen and Joanna van der Leun of the Motown Movement.

That’s the organization founded by architecture students from the Netherlands that bought an abandon…

Gerrymandering — the practice of drawing state legislative and congressional districts to favor one political party over another — is back in the news. Republican state lawmakers are proposing measur…

Welcome back to the week! There's a lot in our latest episode. Let's dive in.

- The Ilitch organization will receive another $74 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the District Detroit. 

- Joh…

Today we’re taking a look at a company that’s making high-end leather goods right here in the city of Detroit, putting Detroiters and veterans to work.

We’re talking about Pingree Detroit, based just…

Como's, a longtime mainstay of downtown Ferndale, has been reimagined by Chef Zack Sklar.

The chef is doing something really cool in elevating pizza and having some creative takes on some old favorit…

Good Wednesday afternoon, and welcome to a super Detroit-y edition of your Daily Detroit.

Today, we walked over to the Avenue of Fashion, where Mayor Mike Duggan came to speak about the streetscape r…

Detroit: A great bike city, or the best bike city?

We dive into that superwonky argument in the wake of Detroit’s abysmal showing in PeopleForBike’s annual rankings of the Best Cities For Bikes in 20…

What is it with Greektown and the rise in shootings lately? We talk about that in the wake of another shooting late Sunday that injured two, though not critically. For years, the retail district was …

Between hiring a new head coach to replacing the turf surface at Keyworth, and preparing to embark on its first-ever season of professional soccer, 2019 promises to be the biggest, most important sea…

The HBO show “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” last week turned its lens on the District Detroit, the Ilitch family’s mostly unrealized plan to redevelop 50 blocks as a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood …

Today is a conversation with Howard Hertz, previewing the Detroit Music Awards that are happening this Friday. The annual event has been a lynchpin of the Detroit music scene for years.

Hertz is not …

Because of disinvestment, changing demographics and the construction of the new bridge to Canada, the Detroit neighborhood of Delray is disappearing.

Local author Karen Dybis is working to preserve t…