San Francisco-Based Uber Opens In Downtown Detroit’s Growing Tech Hub
Saying it’s inspired by the entrepreneurial revival in a city built on transportation, San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc. Wednesday announced the launch of its on-demand luxury car service in...
View ArticleDetroit to become Paris of the Midwest?
Thursday in Motown, promising a main drag awash in ice cream stands, ground-floor retail, pedestrian walkways and esplanades, and a smorgasbord of other “placemaking” initiatives he said will make...
View ArticleMidtown Mid-Rise Bringing Woodward Retail and Office Space
Surrounded by tall, barbed-wire fencing, the empty landscape at Stimson and Woodward has spend decades exuding all the charm of a disused prison yard. Those days, however, are numbered. Starting this...
View ArticleConstruction to start on Globe Building state park recreation center and...
The former Detroit Dry Docks Engine Works complex and Globe Trading Company building, parts of which date back to 1892, will begin its transformation into an adventure and discovery center as part of...
View ArticleGaming board approves Greektown casino licenses for Gilbert, Cullen, Athens
The Michigan Gaming Control Board has approved gaming licenses for Dan Gilbert and Matt Cullen and the deals that will give them and Athens Acquisition LLC control of Greektown Casino-Hotel. The three...
View ArticleGazelles Roam Creative Corridor
Jason Huvaere doesn’t hesitate when he describes the relationship between his company, Paxahau, and Detroit. The city serves as a muse for him and his firm as strongly today — when they are putting...
View ArticleDetroit Bizdom moves out of Madison Building, into larger space around the...
Detroit Bizdom has moved out the Madison Building and into larger downtown digs. The accelerator outgrew its old office and relocated last week to 1528 Woodward Ave., the former Arts League Building...
View ArticleBook Cadillac penthouses offer million-dollar view of Detroit
DETROIT, MI – Arguably one of the best views in Detroit is from atop the Book Cadillac Building, and that view is for sale. The company brokering the 64 apartment units above the Westin Hotel rooms...
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Gilbert buys 2 more downtown Detroit buildings
Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock Real Estate Services LLC has purchased two more downtown Detroit buildings, at 620 and 630 Woodward Ave., and plans to fill them with retail and restaurants, Bedrock’s parent,...
View ArticleGrowth by association: TPG makes strategic move downtown
The Professional Group, which has seen revenue rise 38 percent over the past few years, expects its move downtown to put it in a prime location to gain business from the increasing number of companies...
View ArticleGilbert buys former Bamlet Building on Griswold, Kahn-designed building on...
Dan Gilbert’s Rock Ventures LLC announced today the acquisition of two more buildings in downtown Detroit. The properties, 1505 Woodward Ave. and 1265 Griswold St., mark Rock’s 39th and 40th building...
View ArticleIndependent toy store popping up downtown Detroit
When I first met Kurt Spieles, he issued me a challenge: Match as many shapes as I could, in three minutes or less, by placing wooden cutouts into their corresponding spots on a game board. Simple, I...
View ArticleFriedman Sells 35,000 Square Foot Downtown Detroit Office Building
Farmington Hills, Michigan (November 4, 2013) – Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, one of the nation’s leading providers of commercial real estate services, recently sold a 35,000 square foot...
View ArticleMetro Detroit’s Oakland County Hails $90 Million ‘Banner Month’ of Development
DETROIT, MI – As spring was blossoming in Southeast Michigan in May, so too were developments sprouting at a “banner” rate in Oakland County, the municipality said Wednesday. The county said 12...
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Downtown Detroit’s Rent Market Nears Magic Number: $2 Per Square Foot
Detroit —Since the late ’90s, downtown Detroit landlords have dreamed of the day they could charge apartment renters $2 per square foot. It was a magic number, like a major league pitcher winning 20...
View ArticleHotel St. Regis and the Stealthier Neudeck Building Could Become Apartments
Earlier this year, the eastern half of Hotel St. Regis went to auction. Right on the corner of Woodward and W. Grand Blvd, the banished portion was considered an alluring opportunity for a...
View ArticleGroups Announce Economic Redevelopment Project for Detroit Neighborhood
A plan to spur economic growth in a northwest Detroit neighborhood was announced Tuesday during the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Denver. The Motor City Project will highlight using...
View Article$28 Million Development to Turn Former Detroit Fire HQ into Boutique Hotel...
DETROIT, MI – A Chicago-based hotel group announced Wednesday it plans to redevelop a former Detroit Fire Department headquarters building into an upscale, 100-room boutique hotel with a restaurant and...
View ArticlePlan to Preserve Ballfield at Detroit’s Tiger Stadium Site Nearing Approval
DETROIT, MI – The Detroit Economic Development Corporation is nearing approval of a plan that would preserve the baseball field at the former Tiger Stadium site in Corktown. A spokesman for the Detroit...
View ArticleNew Red Wings Arena Excites City, but Some Worry About Cost, Traffic, Jobs
Ambitious plans unveiled by the Ilitch family to create a new $650-million sports and entertainment district where the Detroit Red Wings would play and residents could live, shop and eat provoked a...
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