Just hit the inbox this week, a very interesting e-mail that has our office buzzing – kayaking on the Detroit River. Thanks to Model D’s e-blasts promoting the city and some of the amazing activities out there. Originally started back in September last year, kayakers can take guided [...]

Last May, the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy opened the Dequindre Cut Greenway, a nearly 1.5 mile path connecting the Riverfront, Eastern Market and many residential neighborhoods in the city. One year later, the pathway, which includes enough room for bicyclists and pedestrians in its [...]

Could there be any better news than a new company coming to downtown Detroit with plans to create jobs and drive business to our region? In recent days, GalaxE.Solutions, a leading provider of software services and IT business support systems, announced plans to open a significant [...]

   More than 10 years ago, Tech Town was created in Detroit through a partnership with Henry Ford Health Systems, General Motors and Wayne State University. An amalgamation of various startups and entrepreneurs in the city, the idea was seen as cutting-edge and to show Detroit has what [...]

We all remember Fash Bash – at one time arguably the city’s hippest, hottest, most anticipated event, held each year at the Fox Theatre. As economics moved that happening to the sidelines, another Detroit party has moved to the forefront as the place to see and be seen (and all for a [...]

There’s an unconventional networking and entrepreneurial event going on around the country dedicated to starting small businesses, the backbone of our economy. Startup Weekend gathers everything a startup business might need in one location including venture capitalists, investors, [...]

Just a few days ago, Dave Bing celebrated his one-year anniversary in the mayor’s office. And though 12-months does not a legacy make, just how is he doing so far? In an interview last Tuesday on WWJ, Bing spoke with Roberta Jasina and Joe Donovan about the state of the city and his [...]

Agriculture in Detroit; the new cash crop (pun intended) Cornfield in Downtown Detroit For nearly 100 years, Detroit’s cash “crop” was the automobile. Nobody can argue the success and opportunity the automobile brought to Detroit and the world, and the impact it still has on the [...]

A Detroit legend has died. The man millions grew up listening to on the radio or at the ballpark as the voice of the Detroit Tigers lost his nearly yearlong battle with cancer yesterday. We had all been told last year that he might not make it to see Opening Day 2010. Still, it was too [...]

With a great cross-spectrum of ethnicities and religions in the Detroit area, things Downtown and elsewhere in the city can get a little “bazaar,” as in the Russell Bazaar that takes place every weekend at 1600 Clay, just off I-75 near Hamtramck. The indoor shopping extravaganza has [...]