Momentum Drives Midtown
Detroit 20/20 recently interviewed our very own Sue Mosey for their latest article about growth in Midtown. For the past 24 years Sue has been committed to revitilizing Detroit's cultural core and has been instrumental in many of the area's most notable success stories. You can check out the article and accompanying video interview at the Detroit 20/20 website. From the article: People—and businesses are coming. Two dozen businesses opened or expanded operations in Midtown in 2012— including the Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company.. Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe.. and Maccabees...
Whole Foods comes to Midtown Detroit
Whole Foods has been working diligently since its groundbreaking in Midtown last year and is on track to open its doors on June 5th. The organic grocery store's new Mack Avenue location will be over 20,000 square feet, employ approximately 75 people and has promised to make an effort to include local goods on its shelves. Be sure to check out Midtown's newest addition when it opens this summer. Click here for more information.
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Activities
In commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the University of Michigan Detroit Center will host a series of inspiring and educational events beginning at 10 a.m., Monday, January 21 with free admission and parking to all attendees. The event kicks off with a simulcast of the 25th Annual Martin Luther King Day Symposium keynote address, live from Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor will take place from 10 – 11:30 a.m. This keynote features Morris Dees, a co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Founded 1971, the SPLC has dedicated more than 40 years to...
MLK Day of Service in the North End
DETROIT, MI - The AmeriCorps Urban Safety Project announces its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Service Event. On January 21st, 2013 community residents, AmeriCorps volunteers, Wayne State University, students and faculty from The International Academy for Girls and local service organizations will be partnering to create safer routes to school for students and help remediate blight in the North End neighborhood surrounding the International Academy for Girls. The MLK Day 2013 North End Neighborhood Service Project will be boarding up and cleaning the lots at 13 open and vacant...
Midtown's Boom Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
Detroit — Midtown's revival continues to gain steam with new retailers sprouting up to cater to the growing number of creative and health-conscious residents moving into the neighborhood. Lifestyle boutiques and fitness shops have opened across Midtown in past months — many of them on the first floors of newly built or refurbished residential units. They include: Hugh, a men's accessories and home décor store; Emerald, a clothing and gift boutique; Be Nice Yoga and the Yoga Shelter; and an upscale grocer, Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe. More stores are planned for early 2013 as entrepreneurs...
Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe Open for Business
Detroit – Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe, a family-owned, high-quality city market that reached near legendary status in Lafayette Park in the 70s and 80s, is reopening in the former location of Zaccaro’s Market on Saturday, October 27. Brothers, Michael and Peter Solaka, the sons of the original Shoppe owner, will introduce a reconfigured space, designed to better serve its customers. The market is located at 3100 Woodward Avenue at Watson, just south of Mack, in Detroit’s growing Midtown district. The Solaka brothers’ concept for the Shoppe will mirror their family’s markets that date back...
Detroit Artisan Cafes Perk Up Coffee Scene
There's a new coffee trend brewing in Detroit, and it has nothing to do with industry giants like Starbucks or Biggby. In the past 18 months, independently owned, artisan coffee shops have opened in areas including Corktown, Midtown, Hamtramck and Eastern Market, and in suburbs like Ferndale, offering java aficionados an experience that's as unique as the upscale coffee these baristas serve. And more are coming, including one at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit. Coffee drinkers these days crave a different kind of coffee, owners say. Gone is the demand for sugary lattes and cappuccinos...
A City Where Life is Worth Living
Don't tell these Detroiters about crime or troubled schools or lack of amenities and shopping. Never mind that it can take hours for first responders to make it to emergencies, or that firefighters may have no ladder truck to reach a two-story house fire. Tribes of nearly 800 new Detroiters, mostly college educated in their 20s and 30s with annual incomes between $30,000 and $60,000, have flocked into pockets of the city in just over a year thanks to programs that are encouraging people to live here. They are not just helping to repopulate a city that's been slipping into decay longer...
The Auburn Update
Eight retailers are expected to take the 9,000 square feet of retail space along the Auburn's Cass and Canfield frontages. Hugh, a housewares and personal accessories store; Nora, a design-oriented lifestyle store, and Source Booksellers, moving from a nearby location are three of the retailers that are now open with more to come. James Van Dyke, a partner with the Roxbury Group, developed the project which is currently 90% leased in the residential category with one one retail opening left. The retail outlets will complement the 58 residential units consisting of studio and one-bedroom...