Category Archives: Builders

House Dems propose real estate package

March 13, 2007 – 9:09 am

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 [...]

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10,000+ Michigan Photos

March 12, 2007 – 7:44 am

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 [...]

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Detroit Design Workshop results

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 [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Model D tours the Westin Book Cadillac Renovation

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). Also see Renovation of Detroit’s Book-Cadillac Hotel from Absolute Michigan for lots of links to more info on this Detroit landmark! Share this:

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Protecting Lake Michigan’s Shoreline Dunes

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? Share this:

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Renovation of Detroit’s Book-Cadillac Hotel

November 7, 2006 – 9:57 am

“Redeveloping the Book-Cadillac Hotel shows a tremendous amount of confidence on the part of the business community in Detroit‚Äôs rebirth. This is the same type of confidence in Detroit that was needed to build the Book-Cadillac in the first place.” -Marco Frattarelli, chair of the Downtown Detroit Citizen‚Äôs District Council Share this:

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