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DTE Energy and the Engineering Society of Detroit are looking for a few good energy conservation ideas through its new E Challenge contest.

The $250,000 contest is looking for a commercially available energy saving product, material, system, structure…

An old Detroit Fire Department fire house in downtown is about to become the new home to the University of Detroit-Mercy's law clinics.

The university's law school purchased the nearly 100-year-old building on the corner of Larned and St. Anto…

This multi-media concert, presented by the Michigan Philharmonic along with music professionals and singers from India, was envisioned by the creative genius of American-Indian producer and director, Narendra Sheth.
 Seventeen songs were…

Being your own boss means being responsible. Two films were shown last week honoring two Detroit businesses, Avalon International Breads and City Living Detroit, that are all about leadership and responsibility. Leah Johnson was there taking notes. 

Great show! Dan Gilbert and Sergio Marchionne– For those of you who weren’t able to make it over to the press conference on Monday, Dan and Sergio made some news when they announced that Chrysler would be opening an office in the Dime Building and renaming it Chrysler House. This is great news for Detroit, [...]

The pictures say it all. Well, no: Data Driven Detroit's Kurt Metzger and his charts say it all during episode 11 of DetroitUnspunTV. Plan to spend a good half hour getting an education on proper council re-districting that manages to keep the inte…

DTE Energy Foundation is leading up an initiative this summer to create 500 jobs for young people, primarily in Detroit.

The downtown Detroit-based foundation made a $750,000 commitment, which includes a $500,000 grant to the Grow Detroit's Young …

New York City-based Roasting Plant plans to open a location in downtown Detroit's First National Building, creating a home-coming of sorts for the woman behind it.

Elizabeth Rose spent the first few years of her life growing up in Detroit's Un…

Project partners Invest Detroit, Midtown Detroit, Inc. and the Roxbury Group held a special ceremony Monday for the Auburn, a $12 million residential and retail project in at Cass Avenue and Canfield in Midtown. The "Topping Out" event marked…

Getting the right look for our new HQ was important. So we went with old new stuff. Or is it the other way around? Let Claire Nelson tell us how we furnished our new pad and what it takes for you to do the same.

Downtown Detroit tech firm Urban Science, the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan and Wayne State University of Michigan are partnering to create a new health-care innovation start-up, Life Beyond Barriers.

The new start-up, which calls the Renaissan…

The Detroit summer party season unofficially kicks off with the Movement Festival, produced and promoted by our friends at Paxahau. We'll be there May 26-28 and so can you. Find out how inside.

We're fans of the Freep's John Gallagher and his Reimagining Detroit book, published last year by Wayne State University Press. So when we heard that a film based on the book was in progress and a 30-minute segment was being screened downtown a…

Show features: Dave Lewinski – The organizer of the newly-formed Detroit Ca$h Mob explains where the idea came from, what the Ca$h Mob does, what stores they have helped, and how you can get involved. This is a great initiative that has the potential to help a lot of local businesses! Dave Lingholm – The [...]

Behind every start-up entrepreneur is a risk-tolerant investor. In Detroit, that’s likely to be the Detroit Development Fund, which has provided loans for small businesses like Astro Coffee and Good Girls Go to Paris. Dennis Archambault adds up the details.

Detroiters now have a new way to shape the future of their city. By means of a new mission-based online competition called Detroit 24/7, Detroiters can share their ideas while competing to earn points, badges, and prizes. People of all ages are called …

On Valentine's Day in HuffPost Detroit, we found this timely story with slideshow on some excellent locations in Detroit to get hitched. Also timely is an exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum called "Saying I Do: Metro Detroit Weddings….

Menergy is back for its second monthly installment with DJ Chuck Hampton.

As Gay Marvine, Hampton has released some crazy edits on the Secret Mixes Fixes label as well as the Bath House Etiquette imprint. Good stuff, ideal for kids of all ag…

Oliver Ragsdale– Oliver is the President of the Arts League of Michigan and the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center. These are two incredible arts organizations, and he will discuss how he is working to make the Carr Center a year-round source of cultural community activities designed to reach and serve the city of Detroit [...]

Green Dot Stables is leading the way of a slew of new retail and restaurant businesses opening up in Detroit's greater downtown area.

The popular restaurant/bar at 2200 W Lafayette in Hubbard Farms has been undergoing renovations to its kitchen an…

Great show this week! Click the names for the individual podcasts, or scroll to the bottom for a link to the whole show. James Canning and Alexandria Franz– Detroit Restaurant Week kicks off tonight! James is the spokesman for DRW and Alexandria is the Marketing Director at The Rattlesnake Club. Have you ever wondered how [...]

We had a feeling that the scaled-down light rail project — to stretch 3.4 miles from riverfront to New Center — had too much momentum to be de-railed for long. It's certainly no done deal yet, but the fact that the private-sector group behind the…

The historic Garden Theater in Detroit located on Woodward Avenue will soon get a facelift.
 
A recent announcement from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) revealed that the Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $750,000 Michigan Co…

Dan Gilbert's entrepreneurial empire likes to relentlessly brand its section of the lower Woodward corridor between Campus Martius and Grand Circus Park as a Silicon Valley-style tech hub of the Midwest. Now it's making some real inroads to cem…

After the massively successful Motor City Pride and march we keep the heat turned up with our next next speaker series event on Gay Detroit. It’s tonight at downtown’s Park Bar. And there is an afterglow, doggy style. Sign up now.

Over 1,000 crazy fans went nuts at Cass Tech Saturday night for the Detroit City Football Club's inaugural match with AFC Cleveland, a natural Great Lakes rival. Marvin Shaaoni was there dodging raindrops with his camera.

Kirsten Ussery and Erika Boyd aren't just opening Detroit Vegan Soul because they have always wanted to own their own business or become bigger stakeholders in Detroit. The two women live in The Villages.

"This is a passion and a mission to h…

Hosts Stephen Luigi Piazza and Paul W. Smith will be speaking with: Noah Stephens – The founder of The People Of Detroit, a project that uses vivid portraits and engaging essays to tell the story of the people who live, work and play in Detroit. He founded the project as a counter to the mainstream [...]

Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7 p.m. on 760 a.m. on WJR Radio! *Listen to the Podcast!* Meet our Guests: 1. Bryan Fenster, National Board Member, Detroit Nation Bryan Fenster became involved in Detroit Nation when he moved to Chicago five years ago. He recently moved back home to metro Detroit and is now four [...]

The White House Business Council, in conjunction with the U.S. Small Business Administration, invites you to participate in an urban economic forum designed specifically to address the needs of urban entrepreneurs in the Detroit area.

The Detroit Urba…

Model D startup editor Jon Zemke asked the right questions and seven panelists who are behind six growing businesses had all the right answers. Video producer Tom Hendrickson came back with some moving pictures. 

Challenge Detroit has secured half of its funding for the next two years thanks to a $500,000 donation from Credit Acceptance Corporation's Chairman and Founder, Donald A. Foss. The nonprofit is also finalizing details with a local partner that sho…

- 1,500 to move into Chase Tower;  company and sister companies to have more than 4,000 team members working in technology hub at Campus Martius –  DETROIT, October 10, 2011 – Today marks the first wave in a series of moves that will bring 2,500 more professionals to Detroit by early 2012. Some 1,500 Quicken [...]