Daily Detroit News Byte

Detroit stories: Word comes today that the iconic Cadillac brand will again make the Detroit area its home after nearly four years in Manhattan. - Every single large-scale apartment development built in Detroit this year has been a luxury development. - Turns out that axe throwing and drinking might be a problem. Who knew? - Continuing with the theme of blundering mistakes, the Detroit City Council is considering revoking a demolition contract because of the use of the N-word. - Dan Gilbert is "110 Percent" interested in buying the Detroit Tigers - There will be a third dockless scooter service in Detroit. - Whole Foods delivery is coming to Detroit.] - The old DTE power plant at Conners Creek - once known as the "two Brothers" or the "Seven Sisters" - is about to be the site of an art installation. - Shianne Nocerini gives us her top picks for the performers and storytellers at TedXDetroit.

On the show: For our feature interview, U of M Ross School of Business Professor Emeritus Marina Whitman joins Sven Gustafson to talk about how tariffs will impact the auto industry and Michigan. Your Detroit News: - Road construction at a variety of major stalled projects is restarting around Metro Detroit. That's because the Michigan Infrastructure Transportation Association is bringing in non-union workers to replace those Operating Engineers Local 324 members who have been locked out for weeks.   - Detroit is no longer the nation's most violent big city. We're now number 2. There is also some interesting data about Detroit's suburbs. - A new study says the Detroit region ranks 11th out of the top 50 U.S. metropolitan regions for clean-energy jobs. - The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved nearly $5.7 million in loans for a new hotel project in the lower Cass Corridor. - Former U.S. Representative John Dingell was released from the hospital on Tuesday, a little more than a week after being admitted for a

Recorded on September 24, 2018: After your headlines, Sven talks with Miranda Mayuiers about Purrlates at the Ferndale Catfe, the first cat cafe in Michigan. Detroit Stories: - A rookie Detroit police officer has been fired after an offensive Snapchat post. Sean Bostwick shared a Snap over the weekend that read, quote, "Another night to rangel up these zoo animals." - The Ambassador Bridge was closed in both directions for about an hour Monday morning to deal with a man who was threatening to jump off the bridge. - Crews have been spotted installing plexiglass windows at Lee Plaza. That's the 15-story Art Deco former luxury apartment building on West Grand Boulevard that dates to 1927. - The struggling Eastland Center shopping mall is hitting the auction block. Current owners CW Capital will auction off about 640,000 square feet of the mall's 1.4 million square feet of space in an auction on October 11th. - A bit of good health news for former Dean of the House of Representatives, John Dingell. - The men's cl

Your Daily Detroit for September 20, 2018. Can there be such a thing as a "new" dive bar? For our feature conversation, Devon's Detroit columnist Devon O'Reilly stops by to talk about Second Best... and house-made Zima. Apparently that's a thing. Your Headlines:  - Detroit's schools continue to have water woes. The Detroit Public Schools Community District said that at least 57 Detroit schools have tested positive so far for high levels of copper, lead or both in drinking water. - The beautiful Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle is about to get a $1.9 million facelift starting in October. - Henry Ford Health System will become the lone tenant in a new office tower taking shape in downtown Royal Oak. - Could we be looking at winter with an entire direction of I-696 remaining closed? - A major downtown Detroit hotel is facing a possible strike by its workers. - Detroit has lost one of its champions. David DiChiera, a man who has been a big part of getting Detroit's downtown renaissance in tune, ha

This is your Daily Detroit recorded on Wednesday, September 19th. This is a special two-part episode. First, Sven speaks with Washington Post reporter Wes Lowery about the paper's investigative report about overwhelmed homicide detectives in Detroit, and how they compare to the rest of the nation. His complete article is here: https://wapo.st/2NFbWbr Then the conversation moves City Council President Pro Tem Mary Sheffield about her ideas — called "The People's Bills" — on how to get more Detroit residents to benefit from revitalization efforts. Like the podcast? Subscribe free on Apple Podcasts, Overcast or wherever fine podcasts are found: http://www.dailydetroit.com/podcast Thanks to Milo Digital for their support as a sponsor: http://www.milodetroit.com 

Your Daily Detroit podcast for September 18, 2018: - Our feature interview is with Terry Bean and Shawn Lee, talking about TedXDetroit's 10th anniversary event happening at the Masonic Temple. The conference focuses on ideas worth spreading. http://www.tedxdetroit.com - What's the fate of the old Tigers site? Shianne Nocerini went down to "The Corner," a new modular development at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull to get an update on construction.  - After 56 years of touring, Detroit's own Bob Seger will no longer be a Travelin' man. - Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts will open its 90th season next month with a tribute to Aretha Franklin. - Ford Motor Company has a new neighborhood wish list to go along with its newly purchased Michigan Central Station in Corktown. - Lakeside Mall could become a mixed-use town center called Lakeside Village. Sterling Heights city officials will unveil the new design plans at a public open house event next Thursday. The Macomb Daily reports they're tryin

This is your Daily Detroit recorded on Monday, September 17. After your headlines, Sven Gustafson will chat about the anti-Gerrymandering proposal on this November's ballot with Jamie Lyons-Eddy of Voters Not Politicians. But first, let's dive into the stories. - The owners of the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Detroit are withdrawing their plans to build a 28-story, 500-room tower after their latest attempt was blocked by the City Council. - Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell is in the hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday. - After 15 years with the team, Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg is hanging up his skates. The team announced his retirement on Friday at the first day of training camp. - The Oakland County Health Division says someone with a confirmed case of hepatitis A attended the Michigan Renaissance Festival on Saturday, September 1st. - There's a proposal to overhaul rates for Detroit's parking tickets. The city has among the highest parking-ticket rates in the region, and

You show for September 13th, 2018 from the floor of Digital Summit Detroit. Our feature interview is with Eric Thomas, the founder of Saga Marketing. He recently had a piece in the Financial Times and is locally famous for his LinkedIn blog post, "Why I hate Detroit."  - Detroit's getting a bit more of Silicon Valley's magic. StockX, the Detroit-based Stock Market of Things, just closed on a $44 million Series B funding round with GV, which was previously called Google Ventures. The company says it plans to hire more than 1,000 people in the next year. - How is Detroit's comeback doing? Well here's an interesting indicator. According to data provided by the U.S. Census, the city of Detroit's median household income rose 8% in 2017. That rate is four times the national average of 2%. - A new report suggests that the market for luxury vehicles is on track for a near-record year, thanks largely to the growth in high-end sport utility vehicles. - A pop-up Vespa dealer is opening in the Fisher Building.  - The Sal

From the floor our Daily Detroit podcast for September 12, 2018 - Public works employees in Macomb County have removed a quivering, gelatinous mass from the sewer system that they have affectionately dubbed a "fatberg." - Detroit Public Schools Community District will open a unique K-12 teaching academy next fall on the Marygrove College campus. - The owners of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Detroit have been dealt another setback in their efforts to build a second hotel tower. - Here's a snapshot into what Michiganders are thinking right now about a variety of issues thanks to a set of new polls that we'll walk through. - Popular fitness chain Orangetheory Fitness said today it plans to open its first Detroit location in 2019. - The Impossible Burger Slider is coming to Metro Detroit White Castles - And we talk about the opening keynote with Chelsea Handler, who had some interesting lessons to share about social and digital media that weren't from the perspective of a traditional marketer. She also talke

This is your Daily Detroit podcast for September 11, 2018. Our feature interview today at the end of the show is with Nina Innsted. Her True Crime podcast, "Already Gone," hits 100 episodes this week and it's about a murder that happened on the site of what's now Oakland Mall. We talk about the show, what she's learned podcasting, and more. You can find her at http://www.alreadygonepodcast.com Your Detroit headlines: - Could Detroit Red Wings legend Stevie Yzerman be heading back to the Motor City? Maybe. Yzerman stepped down from his job as General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lighting Tuesday, a position he's held since 2010. - The Scott Fountain on Belle Isle is in line for a makeover.Officials on Tuesday announced that $400,000 of the money raised at the Grand Prixmere charity gala this year will be used to maintain and improve the 93-year-old fountain. - A quick update to yesterday's story about a deadline extension for medical marijuana businesses. - One of Hamtramck's legendary packzi palaces, New Palace B

Welcome back to the work week! This is your Daily Detroit podcast for September 10, 2018. Here are your stories: - It might be the end of an era in Detroit. One of the legendary dueling coneys - Lafayette - will now let you pay for coneys with credit cards. - Miss Michigan, Emily Sioma, used the Miss America Beauty Pageant over the weekend to make a political statement on Michigan water. - We recently told you about how Ford scrapped its plans to import the Focus Active to the U.S. from China due to the steep cost tied to President Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. On Sunday, President Trump apparently caught wind of that announcement from a CNBC report and took to Twitter, suggesting "This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A." where the company would pay no tariffs. - There's some news about one of the Detroit area's largest remaining abandoned shopping malls, Summit Place. - A key deadline in the granting of licenses to medical marijuana facilities looks set to be extended, meaning some facilities will be

This is your Daily Detroit podcast for September 6, 2018. Our feature conversation is with Greg Migliore of Autoblog, where we talk about Ford, Tesla, and what's happening in the car business after our headlines. - Tigers fans were surprised on Wednesday night to see neither Mario Impemba or Rod Allen calling the game against the Chicago White Sox. First-reported by the Athletic, the altercation between the two Fox Sports Detroit broadcasters happened immediately after the Tigers' 8-3 win in Chicago against the White Sox on Tuesday. An unnamed source who witnessed it said the incident was, quote, "severe." - Straight-ticket voting is no longer a thing in Michigan — at least for this November's election. That's where you have the option to check one box and have all of your votes go to candidates of that party down the ballot. - Bloomberg reports that Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert is looking to exit the casino business… including his Jack Casino in Detroit. He's already lined up two prominent banks - Deuts

Your Daily Detroit podcast for September 5, 2018: - In order to have more influence on the final law, the Michigan Senate passed two ballot initiatives Wednesday to raise the minimum wage and mandate employers provide sick leave for employees. But they didn't pass them to make them into law; they passed them to change them and control them. - The man brought in to help stabilize Detroit's finances since shortly after the city declared bankruptcy is leaving his post. John Hill will leave his job as the city's chief financial officer at the end of the year. He was hired back in 2013 by former emergency manager Kevyn Orr during the city's bankruptcy. Mayor Mike Duggan later persuaded him to stay on longer. - A couple of gubernatorial endorsements among groups representing police officers have been announced. - Fiat Chrysler says it has invested more than $30 million in a new facility to develop and test autonomous vehicles and advanced safety technology at its Chelsea Proving Grounds west of Ann Arbor. - Meanwhi

Here's your Daily Detroit podcast for September 4, 2018. - On our show last week before the Labor Day weekend we told you about a lockout dispute affecting members of a labor union that represents road and bridge construction workers. Now, that lockout has put a freeze on dozens of road construction projects across Michigan. - Students started the first day of classes today in the Detroit Public Schools Community District with water coolers and bottled water in lieu of drinking fountains. - One of the city's "must see" pieces of street art has come down, along with the abandoned and badly blighted building it was on. "The African Amalgamation of Ubiquity" was painted in 1985 by Curtis Lewis on an old bank building at 9980 Gratiot, just west of the Better Made Potato Chip Plant. It was the former home of the neighborhood nonprofit "Operation Get Down," which moved across the street to a new location some time ago. - Anti-semitic flyers were found taped to a church door on Sunday morning. - Campbell Soup plans

This is your Daily Detroit recorded on August 31, 2018. - The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was scheduled to be laid to rest Friday. A little piece of news out of the funeral is that Chene Park is to be renamed in her honor. - Fellow hometown music star Eminem has dropped a new 13-track album at an unexpected time, titled "Kamikaze." In it, he takes no prisoners with verbal shots at Charlamagne Tha God, Harvey Weinstein; Tyler, the Creator; Lil Pump; Machine Gun Kelly and Donald Trump. - Ford Motor Company is planning to get rid of most of its cars for the American market in favor of more trucks, crossovers and SUVs. But the automaker on Friday said it's canceling one of the only remaining cars it did plan to offer due to costs associated with President Trump's trade war. - Headaches for drivers due to road projects in Michigan could go on longer, thanks to a dispute between road construction companies and one union. - Wayne State University is welcoming its largest full-time freshman class in its 150-year

Here's your show for August 29, 2018. - The saga of dangerous water in Michigan's urban centers continues, this time in Detroit schools. In an email sent out to teachers, Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti said that he's ordering the water to be shut off in all 106 schools in the district. - In a piece of news that's coming in just as we were about to record, Ford Motor Company's credit rating has been downgraded to one level above junk status.  - There's news about the renegade street artist Shepard Fairey, who's best known for the Andre the Giant OBEY! meme and the "Hope" poster of then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama. On Tuesday, the Michigan appeals court dismissed the city of Detroit's attempt to reinstate charges against Fairey for vandalism. - Medical marijuana patients in Michigan could soon have the ability to order cannabis via home delivery. - Construction on a five-story mixed-use apartment building on Woodward Avenue in Detroit is now expected to start in

This is your show for Tuesday, August 28th. - You can say goodbye to the familiar Green and Yellow stripes on Detroit buses. In a parking lot on Gratiot outside of Mike's Fresh Market, the city of Detroit today unveiled new buses, new services… and a new brand for the Detroit Department of Transportation. We talk to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. - The redevelopment of the shuttered Northland Mall is proceeding — if slowly. Fox 2 News reports that crews have demolished the old Firestone car service center on the 125-acre property. - A market research and consulting company, Gongos, formerly based in Auburn Hills opened its new headquarters today in downtown Royal Oak, where it is moving around 120 employees. - A unit of Subaru plans to expand its R&D operations in Wayne County after winning grants from the state. - Ferne Boutique, a contemporary women's clothing and accessory store, has opened in the New Center neighborhood of Detroit. Shianne Nocerini has the story. - An appearance by English industrial meta

Your show for August 27, 2018: - Ground broke today near Chene Park on what promises to be - when it's complete - one of Detroit's hottest new public attractions. Sven Gustafson caught up with Mark Wallace of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy to get the details. - A 275 year old tree was cut down in Ferndale, says the Oakland County Times. More (including awesome pictures you gotta see) here. - A 28 year old bicyclist has died after being hit by a car on the bridge to Belle Isle State Park. - To many Metro Detroiters, a sushi event at Eastern Market has left a raw feeling. The Detroit Sushi Fest was on Friday evening and it is the current object of the Detroiternet's ire, with many bad reviews. - Norma G's Cuisine is opening its first brick and mortar location in the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood of Detroit on Tuesday. - Beginners luck seems to be a real thing for a 19 year old Macomb County man. That's because he won half a million dollars with the Platinum 7's instant game on his fourth ticket.  - The K

Your show for Thursday, August 23, 2018. - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and a group of Detroit-area residents have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Michigan's no-fault auto insurance law is unconstitutional and is unfairly expensive for drivers. - The internet is ablaze with speculation that it might just be the end of Hockeytown for the Detroit Red Wings. - Work is set to start Monday to build Detroit's newest beach. - A couple of changes are on the horizon for buses around town. The first is proposed, the second is happening. - The Detroit Knight Arts Challenge has named 53 finalists for its grant contest, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. - We now have more details on the Aretha Franklin tribute concert that will be free and open to the public. - Time Magazine has named the Detroit Foundation Hotel as one of the World's 100 greatest places.  - The Weird Homes Tour is on Saturday, August 25th and runs from 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. If you like the show, don't forget to subscribe in Apple Podc

Our August 22, 2018 features an interview with Sean Mann, CEO of Detroit City FC. The season may be over, but there's still a lot of activity with the organization, including efforts to go professional and to roll out their sports complex and bar on the east side of the city. Our stories: - Ford Motor Company has added another piece to its emerging Corktown campus. - Detroit is about to get a giant floating bar of light. The new art will connect two historic downtown buildings: One Woodward, designed by famed World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, and the Guardian Building, the famed Art Deco masterpiece designed by Wirt C. Rowland. - In Troy, the owners behind Berkley's Vinsetta Garage and Clarkston Union just opened a Latin American fusion eatery called Gran Castor, which is Spanish for "great beaver." - In Detroit, the owner of Supino Pizzeria is planning a new pizza joint on Woodward in the New Center. - And finally in Ferndale, a large sign recently went up on the roof of a vacant storefront along