Category Archives: Builders

March is Home Month on Absolute Michigan

Homes along East Ferry Avenue – Detroit MI by pinehurst19475 For the month of March, Absolute Michigan will be featuring Homes with stories about historic Michigan houses, home & home design blogs, green building and other new trends in construction and redevelopment, and some of the great neighborhoods across the state for buying and renting. [...]

Home is where…

well red by suesue2 For the whole month of March, we’ll be featuring Homes on Absolute Michigan with features about historic Michigan homes, green building and other new trends in construction and some great neighborhoods across the state. Because you can’t tune in any media without hearing how terrible the housing market is, we’ll also [...]

Photo Friday: First Presbyterian 01 by numstead

You gotta click through and see it bigger! Nathan takes some amazing photos of Michigan’s cities and urban architecture. Have a look at his photos of Ann Arbor (especially this one) and Grand Rapids (especially this one … and that one … oh and better not miss this one). He’s got all kinds of other [...]

Blogs We Dig: Rivertowner: Life Along the Detroit River

Cloudy buildings, forward and behind by caterpillars Rivertowner combines information about the development of Detroit’s riverfront with information about life along the riverfront (sometimes touching on Windsor, Canada), creating a fascinating view of life in Detroit and how the city is revitalizing itself as a place to live, work, and visit. When it’s not considering [...]

7-313-306 (the Seven Wonders of Detroit on its 306th birthday)

Bootstrap Analysis writes: Today is Detroit’s 306th birthday. Yes, it sort of looks its age. But in honor of the occasion, and inspired by a thread at the DetroitYES forum, I thought I’d list what I consider to be the Seven Wonders of Detroit. I felt these should be pretty unique, characteristic of Detroit, and [...]

Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Watch Michael Moore’s Sicko online, birdwatch (or apartment hunt) in Detroit’s Brush Park, follow the growing Michigan wine industry with a new blog and head over to Fremont, Michigan – baby food capital of the world!

MCS 7.2.7: Transformers co-star Michigan Central Station

Today Transformers opens at screens across the country, and we thought it would be a good idea to give a shout out to the city of Detroit in general, and Detroit’s Michigan Central Station in particular. As the still above shows, MCS gets some face time in the summer blockbuster. The building is a favorite [...]

Annual Michigan Energy Fair in Manistee

NOTE: We’ll have details on the 2008 Michigan Energy Fair here next year! You should also check out this report on the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair (with video) from the Michigan Land Use Institute. The annual Michigan Energy Fair will be held June 22-24, 2007 at the Manistee County Fairgrounds in Onekama. Billed as “one [...]

The Last Days of Slumpy

Over on Michigan in Pictures today there’s a pretty cool feature titled slumpy … the William Livingstone Mansion in Detroit’s Brush Park about an Albert Kahn designed home that has fallen on hard times. …and so you don’t get too depressed, check out this Model D article about renovations in the Brush Park neighborhood. The [...]

Tracking the new Grand Rapids Art Museum

by sparky05 part of a set of GRAM photos The New York Times had an excellent article (From Michigan, a Clean-Running Museum) on the new Grand Rapids Art Museum. When Peter Wege pledged $20 million to relocate the GRAM, he required that the new building be “green.” The museum is slated to open in October [...]