May 6, 2008
Eastern Market receives $500,000 to update sheds
Source:
Crain's Detroit Business
A few of the historic Eastern Market sheds are getting makeovers this summer. The market received a $500,000 grant that will go
toward sheds No. 3 and No. 4. Last summer they began a $14 million
project to renovate five of the sheds. Shed No. 1 was dismantled and
moved to Greenfield Village, while Shed No. 2's renovations are
expected to be completed by May 18 for Flower Day.
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May 6, 2008
TechTown's SciTech honored for cancer research
Source:
Great Lakes IT Report
SciTech, a Wayne State University spin-off company located in TechTown,
is gaining acclaim for some promising anti-cancer drug research that could
potentially save thousands of lives from pancreatic and other deadly
cancers.
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May 6, 2008
Hamtramck's Design 99 offers 'not necessarily furniture'
Source:
Design 99
Hamtramck's Design 99 duo, husband and wife Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, have launched a publications department starting with two new pubs.
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May 6, 2008
More festival updates: Details fleshed out for this year's Detroit Festival of the Arts
Source:
detroitfestival.com
Detroit's arts and entertainment festival is returning to Midtown on
June 6-8 this year. More than 300,000 people are expected to attend the
22nd Annual Detroit Festival of the Arts featuring ten stages and 20
square blocks of performances and art. One-hundred artists will fill
the blocks with more than 100 performances gracing the ten stages.
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May 6, 2008
Movement 2008 grows in ticket sales and volunteers
Source:
Movement 08
This year's Detroit Electronic Music Festival - Movement - will take over Hart Plaza on May 24-26 with double the volunteers and triple the ticket sales of last year. Moby, Richie Hawtin, and Carl Craig are just a tiny fraction of the performances taking place.
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May 6, 2008
Detroit group to launch web site for creative jobs
Source:
Detroit Free Press
Metro Detroit's creative job market might get a boost in the near future. The Detroit Renaissance group is looking to launch a web site to help woo in workers into the city's creative job positions.
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May 6, 2008
Spin praises Detroit music scene, giving nods to American Mars, the Muggs, MC Search
Source:
Spin Magazine
Spin praises Motor City for what it sees as its No. 1 import: great music.
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May 6, 2008
Dave Bing's Watermark condos receive $700,000 loan
Source:
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Economic Development Crop. approved a $700,000 loan for
Dave Bing's east riverfront condo project called the Watermark.
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May 6, 2008
Cityscape Detroit's event 'What Retailers Look For' on May 8
Source:
Cityscape Detroit
Patty Formosa, a retail consultant with MapInfo, will be discussing
what retailers look for when choosing store locations, the retail
situation in Detroit, and what Detroit can do to attract more retail.
She is an expert with GIS, Census Date, etc., and retailers like Home
Depot, Pep Boys, and Linens 'N Things hire her to tell them where to
build stores.
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May 6, 2008
Two Sundays left in the 6th annual Motor City Makeover
Source:
Detroit News
Though the first one has come and passed, there are still two more
Saturdays left for the 6th Annual Motor City Makeover. Volunteers will
collect debris and litter on the west side May 10 and on May 17 the workers hit up the center and southwest areas of the city.
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