Your Monday morning briefing: GOP candidate John James suggests women aren’t born to be leaders; University of Michigan study counters opponents arguments that it’s a worthless government handout; and owners of the Crown Plaza pull the plug on a new tower in downtown Detroit.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a homeless center for LGBTQ youths after Gilbert made a disparaging remark about Bruce Jenner.
The view from atop the city’s third largest building is breathtaking.
A crew on Wednesday will begin removing bricks and masonry that are hanging loosely from the Wurlitzer high-rise next door on Broadway Street.
Crumbling bricks from the adjacent, neglected Wurlitzer building aren’t the only danger to 1515 Broadway.
The ranger has defaced historic buildings and signs throughout the city while collecting a check from the state.
What Detroit lacks in luster, it makes up for in sweat.
Owner Larry Mongo suffered cuts and bruises after confronting the vandals on the roof of the two-story building, he said today.
Detroit is a place of extremes. Take Midtown, where theaters, lofts, restaurants and hospitals are cropping up. Driven predominately by young, educated, white people, Midtown and much of downtown are bursting with development. Then there’s the rest of Detroit – clusters of neighborhoods, many marred by crime and abandonment, losing residents every day. Too often, when […]