Lafayette Towers To Be Sold To Detroit, City Looking For Developer For Mies ...
The foreclosed buildings are cleared to be purchased by the city from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the deal is expected to go through in November, according the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation. The city plans to resell ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Bobby Ferguson reaps $50000 profit from sale of property bought with grant ...
Prosecutors submitted documents into evidence that show Bobby Ferguson, by way of Three Dimensional Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit he presided over, purchased one half of a duplex at 19791 Meyers for $24,000 in Detroit in 2001.www.mlive.com
Jerome Horwitz dies at 93; developed potent anti-AIDS drug AZT
Jerome Horwitz, a medical researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, had spent more than a decade developing a drug he hoped would work against cancer.www.latimes.com
Fed prosecutors focus on grants at Kilpatrick trial
A former state budget official testified Carlita Kilpatrick's UNITE company got $100,000 from the Detroit Three Dimensional Community Development Corp, controlled by contractor and friend Bobby Ferguson, after it received the money in 2000. The amount ...www.detroitnews.com
U.S. kids exposed to 4 hours of background TV daily
A number of studies have found evidence that too much television is bad for children's development, even when it's playing in the background and kids are not watching.www.freep.com
Detroit Leading US Development of New Vehicle-to-Grid Technology
It's no secret that auto manufacturers, battery manufacturers, government officials, and champions of renewable energy everywhere are disappointed by the slow rate of consumer adoption when it comes to electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.www.xconomy.com
Canadian GM workers accept contract
The deals with the three Detroit automakers avoided strikes and the possibility production will move to the United States in the next four years.www.pddnet.com
Editorial:
Given that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is moving forward with a plan to eliminate 81 percent of the department's workforce, a forceful response by the union representing those workers was probably inevitable.www.freep.com
Billions from drug bypassed creator
JEROME Horwitz, a medical researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, had spent more than a decade developing a drug he hoped would work against cancer.www.theage.com.au
Detroit agencies in dispute over economic development roles
A dispute over how to best nurture economic development projects in Detroit has sparked a nasty feud between two key agencies in the city.www.freep.com
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Seeks Proposals to Purchase, Renovate ...
The complex is available because the City of Detroit has agreed to purchase it through the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in a foreclosure action. DEGC anticipates the sale to the City will close in mid-November, with a simultaneous ...www.sacbee.com
Dlectricity's high-tech art puts spotlight on Detroit's Midtown
Conceived by the advocacy group Art Detroit Now and produced by the economic development nonprofit Midtown Detroit Inc., Dlectricity represents a confluence of forces and funders committed to the role of culture in rebuilding Detroit. Organizers ...www.freep.com
Housing development slowdown leaves suburbs to pay for new infrastructure
In 2008, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments predicted the exurbs - the outer-ring suburbs of metro Detroit - would be filling up with houses and development by 2035. The subsequent stock market and housing crashes, however, changed that ...www.freep.com
Mitt Romney calls for overhauling U.S. foreign aid
NEW YORK -- Mitt Romney said Tuesday that the U.S. must rethink how it awards foreign aid, and should work more with the private sector to nurture free enterprise and open economies in developing nations. "Nothing we can do as a nation will change ...www.freep.com
Vacant land auction in Detroit called a mistake
Planners working on a blueprint for future Detroit development say it's a mistake to keep auctioning off the city's abandoned and vacant property for pittances in back property taxes.www.freep.com
Blighted gas station on Ann Arbor's Detroit Street could be replaced with 3 ...
Dan Williams of Maven Development submitted an application to Ann Arbor's Historic District Commission to demolish the 400-square-foot blighted gas station at 544 Detroit St. and construct a new three-story building. The flatiron-style building would ...www.annarbor.com
Garden Theater: Development Of Detroit Landmark Continues Midtown Block's ...
Most development projects in Detroit are complex, fraught with risk and delay. But a decade of painstaking steps to bring closure on a project is the ultimate test of a developer's patience.www.huffingtonpost.com
Comparing Pistons to Each Central Division Rival
The Chicago Bulls and the Indiana Pacers now reign supreme in the Central, with the Milwaukee Bucks and Cleveland Cavaliers fighting it out with Detroit for the second tier. And while .... If he is able to continue to develop as a distributor, he could ...bleacherreport.com
Long-awaited student housing development comes to University of Michigan ...
Enlarge Khalil AlHajal | kalhajal@mlive.com A rendering of a student housing development at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where 500 units will be available by Fall 2013.www.mlive.com
Legislation would give Detroit Wayne County Port Authority more power to issue ...
Legislation that would enhance the powers of the Detroit Wayne County Port Authority to finance a broad range of economic development projects both on and off the waterfront is running into opposition from one of the region's most powerful officials ...www.freep.com
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