Category Archives: Real Estate & Development

Ernie Harwell’s plan for Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium 1987 vs. Toronto Blue Jays by 1ManWithACamera I have apparently been hanging with Rip van Winkle, and so missed the news that Ernie Harwell has come forward with an 11th hour plan to save Tiger Stadium from demolition. Michigan Radio’s Jack Lessenberry spoke with Ernie Harwell about his plans and just hearing Ernie [...]

Five things you need to know for Monday, July 23, 2007

Extreme view of the auto industry NPR had an interesting interview with Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist.com. Autoextremist is a site that purports to offer “the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high-octane truth” about the challenges facing Detroit’s auto industry. DeLorenzo is an auto industry consultant, and if you want octane-rich bare-knucklery with a minimum of varnish, look no [...]

Blogs We Dig: Great Lakes Guy

Great Lakes Shore II by Phoenix828979 Andy Guy is the Great Lakes Guy. On his blog, he is tracking the trends transforming the Rust Belt into the Blue Belt. He has called Gov. Granholm for Michigan’s failure to develop a green energy strategy and praised Marquette, MI for starting a transformation for its downtown waterfront. [...]

Five Things you need to know for Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I really hope you get a chance to check out yesterday’s Michigan Surfing feature. Quite a few cool videos and another shining example (based on reader comments) that Michigan is often more than people believe it to be. Shhh. Proposed Grayling Amusement Park a Secret? The MLUI has done some digging on Grayling’s proposed Main [...]

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!

Exploring right-sized housing in Northern Michigan

Up North, Towns Eye ‘Granny Flats’ Carolyn Kelly, Michigan Land Use Institute Related feature from MLUI Media: Young People Speak Up for Granny Flats Somehow, it doesn’t seem to add up: Northwest Lower Michigan’s population is rising, but the number of people living in its towns and villages is falling. Apartment hunting in the region [...]

Blogs We Dig: Grow Detroit

Under the People Mover by suesue2 If you’ve been paying attention to Absolute Michigan over the last few months, you are probably aware of Grow Detroit due to the fact that we always seem to be linking to stories over there. Their diverse team provides the real stories impacting Michigan’s largest city and suburbs along [...]

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 [...]

House Dems propose real estate package

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 [...]

Exhibit probes the question of shrinking cities

Thinking About Detroit by DA2Brian Model D has a video feature (below) and an accompanying story (Big Ideas for Shrinking Cities) on the Shrinking Cities exhibit at MOCAD and Cranbrook (also see shrinkingcities.com). The exhibit runs through the end of March at the new MOCAD museum in Midtown Detroit and the Cranbrook art museum in [...]