Here’s your chance to watch a terrific ice-skating show and help cure cancer at the same time. The Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation will bring a SK8 to Elimin8 Cancer fundraising event to the Frankenmuth Rink at Campus Martius Park on January 30. There will be performances by two-time national champion and CARES board ambassador Alissa Czisny […]
What does a high schooler do for summer vacation? Family road trip? Work at a local convenience store or restaurant? For those interested in something more civic-minded and rewarding, there is the Bank of America 2020 Student Leaders Program. The philanthropic program helps high schoolers from Detroit and across the nation build job and leadership skills […]
According to most CBD company founders, the momentum behind the “Green Rush” has little to do with money – it is more about how these founders realized their own lives or those of the people closest to them improved as a result of CBD. That’s just one of the findings of the CBD Confidence Survey, […]
Eligible homeowners living near FCA’s new assembly plant on Detroit’s east side will soon have extra dollars – up to $15,000 – to help with repairs. The money comes from FCA, which completed the transfer of $900,000 to the City of Detroit’s Housing & Revitalization Department (HRD). It is the first tranche of a $1.8 […]
The 9th annual Menorah in the D celebration will take place December 22 starting at 4:30 p.m. in Campus Martius Park. Family activities run from 4:30-5 p.m., followed by the official public lighting of a steel and glass menorah at 5 p.m. Thousands of children, families and individuals from Oakland, Wayne and Detroit are expected […]
The garment industry in America all but died long ago. Everyone wants to send the work oversees. It’s been that way for decades. Mathew Hunt decided metro Detroit was the perfect place to buck that trend. The founder of metro Detroit-based clothing manufacturer GETTEES makes shirts in unused space in his dad’s automotive parts factory […]
Get your skates ready. The Rink at Campus Martius Park opens for a preview weekend Friday, November 15 through Sunday, November 17 before it officially opens on November 22 following the Detroit Tree Lighting Ceremony. On Friday, November 15 the Rink will celebrate its 16th season with free ice skating for the first 100 visitors […]
Bank of America has invested $2.5 million to help Detroit residents repair their homes with 0% interest rates and support improvements and growth in Detroit’s neighborhoods The $2.5 million investment includes a $1.5 million reinvestment in the 0% Interest Home Repair Program, which began in 2015, and a $1 million operating grant to Invest Detroit to […]
Comerica Bank will open a new banking center at W. Grand Blvd. and Third on Tues., Nov. 12. The move is part of the bank’s $3 million investment into reshaping its Detroit presence announced in 2017. The new street-level banking center completes a relocation that first began in 2017 when Comerica sold its W. Grand […]
One of the city’s annual tributes to the ancestors is on the run again. The Southwest Detroit Business Association’s “Run of the Dead” event for Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) will take place Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to noon at the General George S. Patton Memorial Center, 2301 Woodmere St. in Detroit. The route […]