Shinola builds dog park in Detroit, prepares to launch new line of pet accessories
The company plans to roll out the pet accessories and dog park at Cass and Canfield on June 20, the same day Shinola is opening a sister shop on the same block.
Video: Drone captures large urban farm project in Detroit
More than 1,000 volunteers helped plant oak trees on 20 acres of Detroit’s lower east side Saturday afternoon.
5 exciting apartment renovations underway in the Cass Corridor
The Cass Corridor, long synonymous with crime and blight, is undergoing a renaissance of sorts.
Long-abandoned Cass Corridor apartments to be revived with 47 units
The public is invited to the groundbreaking at 11 a.m. today.
Northville teen develops crime-fighting cell phone app to empower citizens
The high school senior needs your help winning funding for cutting-edge tool.
One man’s last goodbye before historic Brewster Projects demo
As a towering claw dug into one of four remaining high-rises, Prince forlornly posed as cameras chronicled the beginning of the end for the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.
Demo begins on storied high-rises at Brewster-Douglass housing projects
Brewster-Douglass is considered the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people when it was built in the 1930s.
Photo essay: Explore blighted area to be turned into 140-acre forest in Detroit
The largely abandoned area is littered with trash, tires, furniture, rotting homes and discarded boats.
Project to transform 140 acres of blight into large urban farm finally underway
The plan is to plant 15,000 hardwood trees like maple and oak this spring over an area riddled with abandoned homes, dead trees and piles of garbage, tires and old furniture.
Peruvian developer makes final payment on Packard Plant as fires break out
Brazen scrappers continued to cause destruction Thursday after they clipped a natural gas line.