Here’s a map of more than 550 businesses that take part in the City of Detroit’s Project Green Light program. Under Project Green Light, launched in 2016,...
I’ll come clean: Despite the warnings, the last few days I’ve been jaywalking all over town, walking in the street and crossing between intersections and...
How ‘The Dean’ used Twitter to become the moral conscience of the Democratic Party. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress, ever, will be laid...
This Flint startup has upcycled 16,000 water bottles into glasses
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- Detour Contributor
- 11 December
By Erin Gold Ali Rose VanOverbeke and Jack Burns, co-founders of Flint eyewear startup Genusee, can measure their progress in plastic. So far, they’ve turned...
By Detour Neighborhood Ambassador Frank Nemecek Warrendale is a familiar name to most folks in the Detroit. The neighborhood shows up in the news...
Detroit’s infamous foreclosure auction looks different this year
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- Detour Contributor
- 28 September
Every year, counties across Michigan auction off foreclosed properties whose owners have been delinquent on property taxes for three years. While it’s a state-mandated, quiet...
Why researchers are poring over thousands of Metro Detroit food tweets
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 13 September
Let’s say you fire off a tweet about the bomb grilled cheese you just made. Maybe, you wonder into the Twitterverse where you should go...
Why the University of Michigan is eyeing a bigger slice of Detroit
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 11 September
When we first learned about the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center, not gonna lie, we pictured some impressive, gleaming hall of urban research. In reality,...
Detroit testing free Lyfts from bus stops to make late night commutes easier
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 7 September
Just before 1 a.m. the other night, I perused the schedule for the “new” #8 Warren Ave. bus line in Detroit (previously the #14 Crosstown)....
We’ve seen plenty of home tours in Detroit -- it’s a great way to peek inside stately historic neighborhoods like Boston Edison. But the Weird...
OPINION: Detroit isn’t a tale of two cities. There’s something worse going on.
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- 26 July
During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away....
It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead of winter when most people...
It's definitely not as simple as counting the mile roads. ...
Here’s why Detroit needs to get serious about supporting entrepreneurs of color
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- kateabbeylambertz
- 21 June
It's no secret that white, male-owned businesses generally make the most money. But the level of disparity for entrepreneurs in Detroit is staggering. ...
The Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore and Cultural Center is getting a new look and focus when it reopens. ...
Detroiter Sirene Abou-Chakra, director of development for the city, chats with Detour about 20-minute neighborhoods, social mobility and her favorite hangouts around town. ...
Welcome to Detour Detroit’s curated events guide for August 2019. Whether you’re looking for culture, boozing or both combined, we’ve got you covered. Bookmark this...
Back in May, Carson Daly turned to the camera during a pre-Mother’s Day segment on “The Today Show” and instructed viewers to order a dessert...
We couldn’t do what we do here at Detour without our paying members — all of you who support our work and inspire us to...
It’s not a total surprise that Detroit neighborhoods deal with some of the worst environmental injustice issues in the state. But this heat map ranking...
How two sister architects used childhood memories to revive Detroit’s demolished buildings Though she’s too young to wax nostalgic about shopping at the Hudson’s flagship store...
How to turn your mansion-buying daydreams into reality — and a side hustle repping Detroit Who hasn’t fantasized about buying and restoring one of the...
How Outlier Media founder Sarah Alvarez uncovered University of Michigan’s controversial role in Detroit evictions University of Michigan professors have produced some of the more extensive...
A wet summer, record-high water levels across the region and a crumbling water and sewer system have submerged a community on Detroit’s east side for...
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