Detroit
Other polar vortex-related transit news included fire on the tracks in Chicago.
Detroit Free Press
Waymo, not General Motors, is brining automobile manufacturing back to Michigan.
Smart Cities Dive
Detroit's property values are climbing, steeply, for the first time in almost two decades.
The Detroit News
Segregation is decreasing, even in America’s most segregated big cities.
The Brookings Institute
Much more than just an extension of a house, the porch has long been a place of safety, intimacy, and communality.
The New York Times
The buyback plan diverts properties from Wayne County's tax foreclosure auction, keeping them in government hands until residents can repay the purchase price.
Detroit Free Press
The gift is especially notable for its contributions toward efforts to redevelop Detroit's West Riverfront.
The Detroit Free Press
Protected bike lanes, this writer argues, are just one part of a broader rebuild of Detroit that prioritizes engagement.
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit project was slated to become a massive sports and entertainment district. After five years, little has changed.
The Guardian
The final height of the tower that will become Detroit's tallest building may exceed 900 feet. The tower and its complex are expected to include retail, office, residential, exhibit, and event space.
Crain's Detroit Business
Simply put, this scholar says, it comes down to race. With far fewer non-white urban residents, Canadian cities didn't fall prey to the redlining, white flight, and incarceration problems that so heavily impacted cities like Detroit.
The Detroit Free Press
While the Detroit Land Bank has had its ups and downs, it has made significant progress in a city with no shortage of vacant and delinquent properties.
Detroit Free Press
In exchange for generous public subsidies, Illitch Holdings, owner and developer of the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, promised large-scale economic development.
Detroit Free Press
Lots of great ideas, but few resources to back them up—the story in Detroit is probably familiar in cities all over the country.
The Detroit Free Press
Detroit's Hart Plaza is full of concertgoers during Jazz Fest, but some think the downtown space could serve the city better the rest of the year.
Detroit Free Press
The six-month pilot will offer discounts on Lyft rides that begin or end at a bikeshare station.
Michigan Live
Detroit is working to change almost every layer of the city's transportation experience.
Curbed Detroit
A plan to build the nation's longest cable-stayed bridge has been busy clearing benchmarks this summer.
Crain's Detroit Business
A groundbreaking ceremony for Atwater Beach on Detroit's east waterfront is just one of many ongoing construction projects that will add open space and recreation facilities to formerly industrial areas.
Detroit Free Press
The Michigan Department of Transportation ran into a powerful obstacle when acquiring land for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, but a county judge sided with the state.
Detroit Free Press
