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Property values soar for Detroit’s Black homeowners, study shows
Mayor Duggan credited the gains to city-run beautification programs and the Detroiters who stuck it out and invested in their communities
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit, Real Estate, News, Detroit real estate, University of Michigan, Mike Duggan, Slideshow
Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study
Activists and the Detroit City Council say the city is cheating lower-income residents by illegally and disproportionately overtaxing homes
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, property tax foreclosures, homes, evictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Treasurer Sabree, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Detroit City Council
Grosse Pointe group sued again for defiant construction of $45M performing arts center
The lawsuit alleges the Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation is putting residents at risk of flooding
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, lawsuit, Wayne County, Fox Creek, drain pipe, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Fox Creek Drainage District, drain easement
Tenants at Detroit’s Alden Towers fight eviction threats
Some feel they are being retaliated against for speaking up about poor conditions at the historic riverfront apartment complex
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Alden Towers, Detroit landlords, Friedman Communities, Mary Sheffield, Detroit People’s Platform
Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum says it’s moving due to demolition for Meijer store
The 40-plus-year-old arcade does not have a new location secured yet
Tags: Metro Detroit, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Meijer, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Downzoning Michigan Central promising for rest of Detroit
To bring a new hotel and retail into the former train station, developers need to rezone its land — which was designated for industrial use in the 1940s
By Andrew Wright
Tags: Metro Detroit, Government, News, Real Estate, Retail, Michigan Central Station, Corktown, Detroit City Council, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Ford Motor Company, Slideshow
Detroit concert venue Harpos seeking investors for renovations
Honestly, it needs a lot of TLC
Tags: Music News, Real Estate, Local Businesses, Harpos, Detroit music venues, Ruzvelt Stevanovski
HGTV’s Cristy Lee opens up about rare medical diagnosis ahead of return to television
You can catch the Detroit real estate personality on the new home improvement show ‘Battle on the Mountain’
Tags: Television, Television, Real Estate, Music, Cristy Lee, HGTV, WRIF, Detroit real estate, Video
Kwame Kilpatrick’s wife buys enormous house in Novi despite former mayor’s unpaid restitution
Feds will likely put a lien on the $807,000 home
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit, LaTicia Kilpatrick, home, Novi, restitution
Brazen Grosse Pointe group gets green light for parking lot in historic corner of Detroit
The Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation wants to build a $45M performing arts center at border in Grosse Pointe Park
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, Jefferson-Chalmers, Detroit, Detroit Historic District Commission, Grosse Pointe Park, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts
Detroit planning officials slam plan to turn historic land into parking lot
A Grosse Pointe Park-based nonprofit wants to build a performing arts center at the border of Detroit
Tags: Metro Detroit, Local Businesses, News, Government, Real Estate, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, Detroit, Grosse Pointe Park, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, Change Is the Pointe, Jefferson-Chalmers, Jefferson-Chalmers WATER Project, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit Historic District Commission
Marijuana giant Puff Cannabis is building new environmentally friendly headquarters in Troy
The building will serve as the largest cannabis company headquarters in the U.S., according to the company
Tags: Canna-Business, Weed, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Puff Cannabis, marijuana, cannabis, headquarters, Troy, dispensaries, cannabis business
Developers plan to transform an old Pizza Hut in Detroit into East Warren Public Market
The project will include a local produce and fresh food market, mini retail spaces, and co-working offices
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Local Businesses, News, Real Estate, Restaurants, Retail, East Warren, Detroit's eastside, East English Village, Detroit, market, local produce
Last building demolished for ‘Blight to Beauty’ project in Highland Park’s Avalon Village
Founder Mama Shu hopes to inspire other cities to beautify their neighborhoods
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Real Estate, Politics & Government, Avalon Village, Highland Park, Mama Shu, demolition, blight to beauty, nonprofit, Detroit
The partially collapsed historic building in Eastern Market may be saved after all
Mayor Duggan’s administration said it will ‘absolutely’ consider plans to salvage the four-story structure
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Politics & Government, Real Estate, Del Bene Building, Eastern Market, historic building, preservationists, emergency demolition, Mayor Duggan, BSEED
Detroit faces backlash over demolition order for partially collapsed landmark in Eastern Market
The city has a woeful track record of allowing salvageable historic buildings to be razed
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Politics & Government, Real Estate, Demolition, Eastern Market, historic buildings, preservationists, Del Bene Building, BSEED, Detroit
From a fitness studio to a gelateria, Midtown and New Center land 6 new businesses
Other businesses include a restaurant, hair salon, waxing and lashing studio, and bridal boutique
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Local Businesses, Real Estate, Retail, Development, retailers, business, Midtown, Detroit, the Platform, restaurants, Pure Barre
Developers have ambitious plans for Detroit’s old Mammoth building
‘GrandRiverTown’ calls for modern apartment units, retail space, and restaurants
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Real Estate, Mammoth Building, Detroit west side, revitalization, GrandRiverTown, Detroit developments
Last-minute fight to save Ilitch-owned landmark from demolition succeeds – for now
The old Chinatown building was supposed to be razed Monday
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Real Estate, Chinatown, National Register of Historic Places, 3143 Cass Ave., Chinatown, Detroit, Detroit City Council, demolition, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Ilitch family, Olympia Development
Rising costs and gentrification force locals out of Detroit’s downtown and Midtown
As real estate prices soar, Detroiters struggle to maintain their homes and communities
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Disability Rights, News, Real Estate, Longform, Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, Little Caesars Arena, District Detroit, senior citizens in Detroit, housing issues in Detroit, Cover Story
Michigan Central Station is hiring ‘ambassadors’ to welcome guests
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
Lapointe: The Red Wings got trashed
By Joe Lapointe