Category Archives: Real Estate & Development

Assignment Detroit: A year in the Motor City

September 24, 2009 – 8:51 am

Is reality the next reality show?
The Nature Bar by SCOTTS WORLD
Time, Inc. bought a house in Detroit:
Why would we ever do such a thing? Because we believe that Detroit right now is a great American story. No city has had more influence on the country's economic and social evolution. Detroit was the birthplace of both [...]

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Report from the 2009 Michigan Downtown Conference

September 15, 2009 – 11:30 am

Michigan downtowns, courtesy the photographers of the Absolute Michigan pool.

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Today I'm at the Michigan Downtown Conference in Lansing. This morning I'll be posting some updates from the conference as I'm able. This afternoon I'm on a panel with Julielyn Gibbons, Ryan Knott and Bigby Coffee co-founder Bob Fish, talking about [...]

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Real Estate Gold Amidst Detroit's Downturn

September 9, 2009 – 7:01 am

Slows by farlane
A few weeks ago NPR had an interesting feature titled Despite Tough Times, Some See Opportunity In Detroit that looked at how Detroit's dramatic downturn has created some amazing opportunities for starting businesses.
Phil Cooley says the city is wide open for new ventures and is tolerant of his mistakes and successes. "It's lovely [...]

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Flint's Carriage Town makes a comeback

August 20, 2009 – 10:18 am

The Mason House c 1872 in Carriage Town by mansardroofsf
The New York Times has taken note of an area in Flint called Carriage Town that is making a comeback due to some industrious and motivated homeowners. In the midst of an otherwise impoverished area and dire economic circumstances these people are taking advantage of [...]

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MCS Panorama

August 11, 2009 – 8:22 am

Waiting room, Michigan Central
Station by jeanpierrelavoie
Over on Michigan in Pictures today we featured a link to an incredible panoramic walkthrough of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station by Montreal photographer Jean-Pierre Lavoie. The Detroit News had a feature on Lavoie that explains:
In Lavoie's past, he was an electrical engineer with an interest in cameras.
Now he's a former [...]

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City as Canvas: Exploring the potential of Detroit

June 4, 2009 – 10:13 am

Craftsman Home, McLean Street
Highland Park MI by pinehurst19475
A few weeks ago, the Chicago Reader had a great feature saying there's nowhere in America quite like Detroit right now. You should read the whole thing but here's a taste:
They say when the country catches a cold, Michigan gets the flu. Projects that started before the subprime [...]

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the evolution by buckshot.jones

May 6, 2009 – 8:02 am

Here's a guest article from buckshot.jones' excellent Detroit Journal.

Here's the process of prairiefying a city:

A city is built on the river, allowing for trade and commerce and irrigation of farms.
The city prospers and more people move in, the city expands. Farms on the edge of town are converted to housing, forest further on [...]

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M is for Monday … and Midwest, MCS, Michigan Agriculture and MORELS!

May 4, 2009 – 8:51 am

Morels ! by cedarkayak
The latest issue of Midwest Living feature on the Best Midwest Food Towns served up a platefull of restaurants in our region that might entice the culinary tourist. Their editors selected Traverse City as the #2 town and Ann Arbor #3. Also featured were a collection of recipes from Traverse City including [...]

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Downsizing Flint … on purpose

April 28, 2009 – 8:51 am

Abandoned building in Flint - Colors by Derek Farr ( DetroitDerek)
The New York Times has a great report titled An Effort to Save Flint by Shrinking It that begins:
Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods.
The population [...]

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When Ice Attacks: Saginaw Bay homes damaged

March 12, 2009 – 8:10 am

Embedded video from CNN Video
Weird Wednesday already? Nope. Huge piles of ice were pushed by NE winds into homes along Linwood Beach (just north of Bay City), forcing evacuations and causing damage. Linwood Beach residents return to find ice piled around, inside and atop their homes from the Bay City Times begins:
"I was making a [...]

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