Steve Neavling – Page 81 – Motor City Muckraker

‘We are Family?’ So proclaims Mercedes on 5-story-tall ad in downtown Detroit

The banner was posted on a dilapidated building with vacant storefronts, boarded-up windows and graffiti.

After 15 years of abandonment, the architectural gem re-opened as a boutique hotel and apartments.

A Cleveland company’s efforts to transform the Metro Times into a journalism powerhouse are confronting some tough realities.

The Magic Stick was a mainstay for indie rockers and helped propel The White Stripes to stardom.

The 14-story Wurlitzer Building in downtown Detroit is within days of salvation, if all goes as planned.

There’s nothing like it in metro Detroit – four bars, ping pong tables, arcade games, bowling lanes and enough space for 1,000 people.

Frank McCullers has been playing trumpet on the sidewalk outside of the Detroit Opera House for a decade, becoming a fixture on Broadway Street.

Small piles of garbage are all that’s left on the arena site after crews removed fencing, lighting and other materials.

The boy was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detroit firefighters took no chances when they summoned a hazardous materials team to a west-side house that was teeming with pot plants.