Read entire text of Mayor Dave Bing’s State of the City address
Don’t miss a word of Mayor Bing’s speech.
Video: Mayor Bing to reveal details behind mysterious east-side project tonight?
Explore the mysterious project that leveled 12 blocks on the city’s east side.
What’s Mayor Bing hiding? Crews flatten 10 city blocks in 10 days. Church, school, houses gone
In just two weeks, demolition crews flattened 10 blocks on the lower east side, leveling homes, a 19th-century church, school, and trees on the lower east side.
Chilling message on abandoned Packard Plant removed by popular blogger
A popular Detroit blogger tore down an offensive message Tuesday on the overpass of the abandoned Packard Plant that alluded to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Eerie message alluding to Auschwitz is fastened to overpass of abandoned Packard Plant
Motorists driving past the Packard Plant were greeted this morning with the same chilling words that were placed at the entrances of numerous concentration camps – “Arbeit Macht Frei.”
Hantz Farms: Is nation’s largest urban farm experiment a land grab or solution to city renewal?
It’s the first real test of Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to repopulate stable neighborhoods and transform vacant areas into lakes, farms, forests and greenways.
Burned-down houses become tombs for countless squatters in Detroit; city can’t afford excavation
Even when neighbors tell investigators that squatters are living in vacant buildings ravaged by fire, the city rarely does more than a cursory search.
Detroit News, Free Press abandoning historic headquarters for smaller space
The newspapers are hunting for new office space in downtown or midtown and selling their headquarters at 615 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit’s rundown Martin Luther King Boulevard lined with abandonment, homelessness, new housing
The boulevard is lined with abandoned buildings and homes, new public housing and a few schools and churches.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his first “I Have a Dream” speech at Cobo Hall in Detroit
It’s hard to imagine what Martin Luther King Jr. would think of Detroit today – 50 years after his famous “March to Freedom” speech in front of 250,000 people.