Interest and investments in Detroit’s neighborhoods are rising. Whether it’s immediately evidenced on your block or somewhere just “around the corner,” it is, indeed, welcome news that recovery is on the horizon. Although financial institution executives offer differing opinions on the top issues and impediments that hinder Detroit’s real estate market, there is 100 percent […]
It’s something we 20th century children of Detroit only thought would exist in our wildest fantasies of the future. A FIRST Robotics World Championship held in our city. It is happening. Detroit will host the championship for three years beginning in April 2018. During the event Cobo Center and Ford Field will be overrun with […]
Corktown is getting ready to celebrate the holidays, and you’re invited. The second annual Corktown-A-Glow begins at noon on Saturday, Dec. 9. It’s a day-long holiday celebration thrown by the Corktown Business Association and local business owners to bring the community together. You can shop and eat, of course, but there will also be caroling, […]
America’s Thanksgiving Parade is going to have a very special meaning for Yuliana Ortiz, a seventh-grade student from Clippert Academy. As the winner of the 26th Annual Skillman Foundation’s Float Design Contest, she’ll see her design, “The Snowing Mountains,” come to life in a larger-than-life Skillman float that will travel down Woodward in the 91st […]