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The last piece of the new Shinola Hotel will open its doors Monday when The Brakeman starts pouring beers inside its new digs on the corner of John R and Farmer in downtown Detroit.

It’s part of a ne…

A den of coyotes has taken up residence near downtown Detroit — specifically, in that weird no-man’s-land site of the old Brewster housing projects where I-75, I-375 and the spur to Gratiot Avenue co…

Welcome to Tuesday, March 19 and the final day of winter, YAY!

On the show today, we run down the news that not only does Detroit have a homegrown winery, but Detroit Vineyards aims to open a tasting…

It’s Monday, and your weekend warrior dreams have been dashed. Back to work, automatons! 

Oh, and the city of Sterling Heights would like the public to help rename (or name) the sculpture it calls th…

On a recent episode of this podcast, I went on a brief side rant praising my local Meijer store for accepting plastic bags for recycling and had a minor freak-out over the looming global environmenta…

There’s a new house in a modest neighborhood of northeast Ferndale, made of shipping containers, that is listing for $450,000.

Is Ferndale about to become like Midtown Detroit? Oh, SNAP!

Also on toda…

It’s March 13, or written another way, 3/13, or #313Day.

It’s become quite a thing locally on social media. And it’s become, in Jer’s words, “a meme holiday.” Although it's good to spread positivity,…

“Weather and sex are huge factors.”

That’s the, uh, money quote from a Sports Illustrated piece about the best and worst NFL cities as perceived by free agents. Detroit fares poorly, ranking in the b…

It’s been a looooooooooonnnnnng winter, comrades. So your intrepid Daily Detroit team was intrigued to see a new sign outside the former Palmer Park Golf Course HQ announcing that something called th…

Though it’s still technically winter, it’s never too early to look ahead to springtime. And in Detroit, the pace of restaurant openings is continuing apace.

On this episode, Daily Detroit’s Man About…

Today we're talking about the skills gap in Metro Detroit when it comes to coding and development. 

Our conversation today is with TechElevator's CEO Anthony Hughes. His company has job training cent…

Happy Hump Day, errrrybody.

Today’s episode features a series of conversations.

There’s big news for downtown Detroit’s emerging retail shopping scene, as fashionable Swedish retailer H&M is planning…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer today released her first proposed budget before a joint meeting of House and Senate appropriations committee members, and she’s targeting investments to three problem areas …

On today’s show, we have some fun discussing the return of the WLLZ call letters to Detroit’s FM airwaves, and by listener request we talk about the elephant in the room, the so-called District Detro…

Yes, there's a "beach" you'll be able to visit in Detroit through the middle of April.

The Beach Detroit is located in 1001 Woodward, and it's a fanciful experience. 

Sven and Jer chat with Alex Must…

We spent the day at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Detroit Policy Conference.

Though we’ll be sharing more of the interviews in their entirety in future episodes of the podcast, we asked six differen…

We recorded today’s episode at The Rattlesnake, which is joining as a sponsor of your Daily Detroit.

We have some more tasty more details on the new Buddy’s location in downtown Detroit.

Elsewhere, w…

Another day, another truckbed-full of news in Detroit. Fiat Chrysler made arguably the biggest splash with its announcement that it plans to invest $4.5 billion in five Detroit-area plants and create…

A Hollywood film director makes a giant splash at the Oscar Awards when he says Shinola is “saving Detroit” and the interweb asplodes. We talk about what that ridiculous, off-the-cuff comment means a…

On a bonus interview episode of Daily Detroit, our guest is Dennis Archer, Jr.

He's the owner of Ignition Media, proprietor of the successful Central Kitchen and Bar, and chair of the upcoming Detroi…