Michigan

The challenges are great, but city officials and business leaders are hopeful that Detroit will build upon its successful Superbowl weekend.

Rapid transit is at the center of Grand Rapids' new development plan.

As thousands of visiting Super Bowl fans converge on downtown Detroit, city officials are going to great lenghts to cover up the city's blight.

Has the time come for this smaller, automated, electric transit service, the cousin of the Detroit People Mover?

Grants, loans, and expertise propel a coastal community, building on considerable funding from Michigan's brownfield redevelopment program.

The Michigan Land Use Institute publishes a Brownfield redevelopment how-to report describing the state's success in developing a job-producing program.

In Detroit, a new program sues absentee landlords to force them to renovate their property -- unlike citations, property owners face the threat of losing their property, which can then be put up for auction on a county website.

The City of Detroit's effort to put a better face on the downtown for Super Bowl Sunday has its share of critics, as most of the $12 million set aside for streetscape and building facade improvement has gone to locations that need it the least.

Detroit's new public square, Campus Martius, has brought life back to an infamously moribund downtown.

Protecting farmland not only aids thriving farms, it is also vital to the state’s economy.

With the recent bankruptcy of Delphi Corp, a spinoff of General Motors, the once proud middle-class City of Flint, Michigan faces an even bleaker future.

With over $300 million of expected economic activity, Detroit metro real estate companies view the superbowl as a tremendous opportunity to boost sagging sales.

Long commutes no easy answer to affordable homes.

Besieged by growing traffic snarls, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has voted to consider a light rail system in the greater Detroit area.

A new study finds links between suburban sprawl and storm water runoff.

Regional economic transition invites new reckoning with transit.

Michigan State University study concludes farmland should be regarded as a solid base for a new economic strategy.

Residents and local officials of St. Louis, Michigan, look to finally shed their image as a toxic landmark. However, with large shortages in the federal Superfund budget their efforts couldn't have come at a worse time.

For the first time since 1910, when they were exterminated by a state bounty, wolves have returned to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula thanks to the Endangered Species Act.

Calthorpe Associates has been hired to develop an updated downtown plan for one of the USA's quintessential college towns.