Detroit has handed out its first Make Detroit Home grants. MoveDetroit announced this week that 13 Detroiters will each get $15,000 to buy or fix up a home or grow a business in the city. Mayor Mary Sheffield introduced the
The Detroit People Mover is getting a new fleet, and Toronto riders will recognize it. A $10 million state grant will pay to replace the People Mover’s nine aging rail cars with 12 refurbished cars that used to run on
If you see a white Waymo in downtown Detroit with nobody behind the wheel, that is not a glitch. Since Tuesday, Oct. 6, Waymo has been running fully driverless cars in Detroit, with the front seats empty, ClickOnDetroit reported. For
A long-stalled block between Eastern Market and Lafayette Park has 78 new affordable apartments. The Hive on Russell, at 2033 Russell St., opened with a ribbon-cutting on Oct. 2, nearly a decade after the nonprofit developer Develop Detroit started the
Westbound I-696 reopens between I-75 and the Lodge Freeway at 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, ending a closure that began in February. The Michigan Department of Transportation shut the stretch over the weekend to move westbound traffic back to its
Detroit PBS has broadcast from Wixom for years. Now it is building a new home in Detroit. Construction has started on the Fred and Barbara Erb Public Media Campus at 234 Piquette Ave. in Milwaukee Junction, which will put Detroit
Michigan is putting nearly $50 million toward cleaning toxic PCBs out of the bottom of the Detroit River. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the money on Oct. 1 as part of Reclaim the Rivers, a statewide river cleanup plan with a
Zug Island sits at the mouth of the Rouge River, where River Rouge meets southwest Detroit. Most people only see it from the Gordie Howe Bridge approach, the Windsor riverfront or a Delray side street. The island is private industrial
The Detroit People Mover could one day leave its downtown loop. A final plan for the system, released in August by the Detroit Transportation Corporation, names three possible new routes: west to Corktown and Michigan Central, north to the stadiums
Jimmy Hoffa’s family lake house on Square Lake in Orion Township is now a vacation rental. The Hoffa family bought the house in 1947 and spent summers there for decades. Now it is listed on Airbnb and Vrbo after a
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