A few minutes past 11:00 on a balmy Wednesday night there’s still action in a tiny stretch of Agnes Street in Detroit’s historic West Village. Doors to the tony Craft Work restaurant are propped open. Although patrons have mostly trickled out, the light from the inside glows over a sleek bar and stylish tables that […]
Detroit is hot! Yes, when it comes to entrepreneurship, it’s on a roll with new businesses sprouting up across the city. According to a recently published report, nearly two dozen restaurants, stores and service businesses have opened in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood over the past year, and at least a dozen more are on the way […]
Latawn Crocker lives in Southfield, works in Detroit and hungers to come back and live in the city. With that in mind, he and his family came to the 10th Grandmont-Rosedale open house in search of a new home on the city’s northwest side. “Both my wife and I were raised in the city and […]
Years ago, when it started to become a thing to write about Detroit in positive terms instead of the wretched ones we all got used to, it became clear that the city wouldn’t be saved by giant conglomerations or a mega retailer or even Corporate America. It would be saved by the makers. Instead of […]