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 [...]
By farlane
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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 of [...]
By cody
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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 photo [...]
By farlane
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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 and [...]
Yellow House by anikarenina
The Detroit News reports (Buying a home? Tax freeze may be on way) that Michigan's House Democrats have proposed a package of bills calling for a state-backed second mortgage to provide six months of foreclosure protection to people who have lost their jobs and also for an 18-month moratorium on increases [...]
Sometime over the weekend, the 10,000th photo was posted to our Absolute Michigan photo group on Flickr. Photo 10K was taken at the construction of a new casino in Greektown by Mac of Detroit Bike Blog fame.
It's an amazing milestone for us and we are so grateful to all the 400+ people who have chose [...]
February 1, 2007 – 9:39 am
Framed by detroitsky
Yesterday's Detroit News had an interesting article on the 9th Annual Detroit Design Workshop, an annual affair where:
Some of the nation's leading city planners, architects and designers envision a downtown Detroit in 2011 with 10,000 new residents, a big box retailer to replace the MGM Grand Detroit temporary casino, a new arena for [...]
January 10, 2007 – 9:23 am
Model D has a cool video tour of the restoration work going on at the Westin Book Cadillac with Chris Ferchill (project manager with Cleveland-based Ferchill Group).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94hOZQ_Zw0
Also see Renovation of Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel from Absolute Michigan for lots of links to more info on this Detroit landmark!
November 20, 2006 – 8:25 am
Michigan has laws to regulate development and activity in our geologically unique shoreline dunes. The question for today is: are those laws working?
By farlane
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