Detroit seizes the moment to rebuild
In a region riven by city-suburban feuds over such issues as Cobo Center, bus routes and water rates, the RiverWalk shows that competing interests can and do cooperate to achieve major goals.
Urban renewal didn’t work, centrally planned large projects (like shopping mall magnate Taubman’s Riverfront Towers, the RenCen) never turn […]
All I can say is wow. Six hundred luxury condominiums in addition to the hundreds of other planned developments already in the works along the Detroit Riverfront. And the first part of the new development is an 80-unit luxury highrise next to the RenCen.
Crains Detroit and Detroit News
A few weeks ago there was that wild coyote that was seen and caught around RiverTown in Detroit, followed by the story about the coyote that walked into a Quizno’s in downtown Chicago. There was also a coyote in New York City’s Central Park. And now coyotes have been spotted in Golden Gate […]
Kids run through the multi-spout fountain on the big public plaza between General Motors’ headquarters and the river’s edge. There’s music. People on the many benches and ledges eat lunch, read, make phone calls and type briskly.Purposeful walkers, sightseers and strollers mix all along the RiverWalk from downstream (west) of Joe Louis Arena to the […]
The latest in development news in midtown, downtown, and all of the city of Detroit:
WSU to break ground on $27.3M engineering facility
$32M museum at City Airport planned for Tuskegee Airmen
Mezzanine opens its doors in downtown Detroit, design-o-philes stampede
Midtown Loop pedestrian walkway to link cultural amenities, public art
Belle Isle taking shape for Grand Prix
Bean Bar takes […]