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Restauranteur sees city’s future in density, immigrants

Restauranteur sees city’s future in density, immigrants

Torya Blanchard’s entrepreneurial story is becoming the stuff of legend in Detroit. The Detroit native quit a good job teaching French, cashed out her 401k and took the chance of her life by opening Good Girls ...

Entrepreneur bets on Detroit, urbanism

Entrepreneur bets on Detroit, urbanism

If you have taken a tour through downtown Detroit, there is a good chance you have walked through Claire Nelson’s shop, Bureau of Urban Living. Bureau, as it’s commonly known, is an Urban Outfitters-style boutique with ...

How do you hold on to the hipsters?

How do you hold on to the hipsters?

The biggest danger to the revitalization of Detroit’s Midtown — and, by extension, the city itself — doesn’t pack a gun or wield foreclosure papers. He wears a backpack and chews bubble gum. Children — and ...

TechTown broadens focus from high-tech

TechTown broadens focus from high-tech

Wayne State University’s TechTown was intended to incubate high-tech when it was christened a decade ago. However, a survey of the 63 tenants now operating out of the 84-year-old, 120,000-square-foot former Chevy Creative Services building in ...

How far will Midtown’s momentum go?

How far will Midtown’s momentum go?

There are two Detroits in the life of Theo Nicholaidis. The first is a city of cafes and galleries, with his favorite crepe restaurant just down the block from his two-bedroom condo, a newly rehabbed unit ...

Advocate keeps selling Detroit to young professionals

Advocate keeps selling Detroit to young professionals

Dave Egner has traveled a long way to end up right where he started. Egner’s hometown is a third of the population it was in 1950. It has a high poverty rate and high crime rate. ...