Belle Isle Gets Too Crowded, This Week In Detroit City FC with Fletcher Sharpe & More

New Soccer Complex In Detroit, HOUR Detroit Best Of Party & Local News: This is your Daily Detroit News Byte for Jun 13, 2018. - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing Oakland County of pushing discriminatory housing policies in how it divvies up federal housing money. - You know that... by Daily Detroit

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Some Big Bike And Trail Projects Are Coming In 2019, With Todd Scott, Detroit Greenways Coalition: Happy Tuesday, automatons! Today your Daily Detroit gets wonky and talks all about bike lanes and trail projects with Todd Scott of the Detroit Greenways Coalition. He put together an interesting (and lengthy!) list of bike and trail projects due... by Daily Detroit

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Talking Detroit City FC's New Coach W/ Fletcher Sharpe, Warren's Rat Fight, And 5 Restaurant Openings and Closings: On today’s episode, we check in with soccer correspondent Fletcher Sharpe about Detroit City FC’s new coach, Trevor James, and what it means for the club as it prepares for its first (semi) season of professional soccer. Elsewhere, I-696 has... by Daily Detroit

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Belle Isle Gets Too Crowded, This Week In Detroit City FC with Fletcher Sharpe & More: This is your News Byte Podcast for May 29th, 2018/ Here are your stories for today. - Mark Hackel says that the Regional Transit Authority proposal should be dead "forever." - Belle Isle gets shut down on Memorial Day Weekend - Developments on the... by Daily Detroit

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Detroit City FC Might Go Pro, Food News, Detroit’s Getting A Floating Bar Of Light: 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... by Daily Detroit

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Local True Crime Podcast "Already Gone" Hits 100 Episodes, Yzerman Returning To Detroit? And Your Detroit News: 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... by Daily Detroit

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Detroit Earthquake, Chief Craig Car Cruise, Nathan Bomey's New Book "After The Fact" & More: Here’s your Daily Detroit News Byte For Thursday, April 19th, 2018. An Earthquake Hit Metro Detroit Thursday We have new numbers for SMART’s FAST bus service. You too could car cruise with Detroit Police Chief James Craig Lyft is going green and... by Daily Detroit

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Collapse Of The Packard Plant Bridge Spotlights The Plant's Colorful Past And Uncertain Future: On Wednesday, the Packard Plant’s bridge collapsed onto East Grand Boulevard. On today’s show, we talk about that and what we know about why it happened. And we use it as a jumping-off point to discuss the plant’s colorful past and ambitious —... by Daily Detroit

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Maker Of Coats For The Homeless Expands, 2 Historic Buildings Renovated On Eastside: The Empowerment Plan is a great nonprofit organization that provides jobs to homeless women making coats that double as sleeping bags and are distributed to other homeless people. The women, in turn, get a chance to find permanent housing and a new... by Daily Detroit

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Cadillac Comes Back Home, Gilbert Could Buy Tigers And Your News From TedXDetroit: 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... by Daily Detroit

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How The Mixed-Use 'dot' Parking Structure Will Change Downtown Ferndale: On today’s show we focus on everyone’s favorite suburb, Funky/Fabulous/Fashionable Ferndale. There, the city is preparing to break ground on a $28 million mixed-use parking structure adorably named “the dot” — short for “development... by Daily Detroit

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What Caused The Massive $75M Sinkhole In Macomb County?: A single-family home, leaning to the one side, swallowed up by the ground on Christmas Eve. It’s a visual people won’t forget. And it made national news. Today on Daily Detroit, we’re digging into what officials now believe caused a major... by Daily Detroit

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Drag Queen Storytime Controversy, I-696 Update And Lincoln Brings Back Suicide Doors: It's Monday, Dec. 17 in the mystical land known as Detroit. Here's what you get when you listen to your beloved Daily Detroit podcast today: Lincoln has made good on its pledge to reintroduce suicide doors on the Continental luxury sedan. The 80th... by Daily Detroit

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Detroit's Metropolitan Building Gets New Life With Developer David Di Rita And Historian Dan Austin: Developers on Monday took the wraps off the redeveloped Metropolitan Building, which will re-open soon as the 110-room Element Hotel by Westin after four decades of abandonment. As Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org tells us, she's a "real looker" of a... by Daily Detroit

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The Best New Bars And Restaurants Of Detroit 2018: The end of the year is fast approaching, and Daily Detroit is starting to look back at this crazy year, which was an eventful one for the city. On today's episode, our Man About Town, Devon O'Reilly, joins us in the studio to discuss his favorite bars... by Daily Detroit

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Hope For Abandoned Lee Plaza Plus 7 Other Things To Know Around Detroit: The city of Detroit has announced plans to sell Lee Plaza, the hulking and abandoned former apartment tower on West Grand Boulevard near Linden, to a pair of developers for a cool $350,000. The Roxbury Group and Ethos Development Partners plan to... by Daily Detroit

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6 Things To Know Plus 3 Places To Go Around Detroit: Questions? Comments? Email us at dailydetroit@gmail.com Former Governor John Engler is indeed out as interim president of Michigan State University. Replacing him will be Satish Udpa. The United Auto Workers says it plans to stage a candlelight... by Daily Detroit

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Detroit Restaurant Week And 7 Other Things To Know: It was an especially bad start to the week for many salaried employees at General Motors, as the automaker started handing out pink slip in a bid to eliminate 4,000 white-collar employees over the next two weeks. It’s part of plans GM announced... by Daily Detroit

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4 Things To Know Around Detroit: A major water main break in Detroit is causing havoc for residents, nearly a hundred thousand downtown Detroit office workers…. and auto show attendees staying at hotels. Then, a local ice cream shop is getting a new flavor when it comes to their... by Daily Detroit

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I-75 Is Crumbling Plus 11 Things To Know Around Detroit: We thought when we went into the office today, it'd be a short day. We were wrong. Here's what to know around town: I-75 is crumbling. Both the Northbound and Southbound lanes have major emergency repairs underway. A highly dispiriting for Martin... by Daily Detroit

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John Sinclair's New Pot Hangout & 5 Things To Know Around Town: A ritual of regional togetherness is no more. The annual “Big Four” gathering of the Detroit Mayor and the three county executives from Wayne, Oakland and Macomb will not happen this year around the North American International Auto Show. ... by Daily Detroit

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Your Detroit Headlines And Diving In On Lansing's Lame Duck Results With Emily Lawler: Happy New Year! We've made it to season 2! On to the stories: Detroit Police James Craig told the Detroit News on Tuesday there were 261 criminal homicides in 2018. That’s down six from last year and the lowest number since 1966. But for now,... by Daily Detroit

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I-75 Road Construction Announced Plus 5 Things To Know Around Detroit: Today on the podcast, an eight-and-a-half-mile section of I-75 that has been falling into third-world disrepair lately is set to see reconstruction soon. The Michigan Department of Transportation has announced details of the reconstruction project,... by Daily Detroit

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Your 2019 Detroit Auto Show Highlight Guide: For today's Daily Detroit, we talk everything North American International Auto Show with our Sven Gustafson who spent a couple days on the floor at Cobo Center. Topics covered include the general feel of the show, plans for next year's show that will... by Daily Detroit

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MDOT Says I-75 Emergency Repairs Will Continue Until Spring, Detroit Property Values Rise: On today’s episode, we speak with Diane Cross, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Transportation, about the still-unfolding transportation apocalypse on northbound I-75 in Oakland County. There, potholes have proliferated since Monday,... by Daily Detroit

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New Report Indicts Michigan's Inadequate School Funding, Plus DIA Campus To Be Redesigned: Greetings from Detroit, which today looks like a snowglobe-turned-dismal outdoor slushie amid a brief thaw. On today’s show, we discuss a new report from the Michigan State University College of Education that finds tht funding for Michigan’s... by Daily Detroit

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Dick Purtan Returns To The Airwaves To Raise Money To Feed The Hungry Plus 6 Things To Know: On today’s show, Jer tags along with the Salvation Army’s Bed and Bread truck, which delivers 3,800 meals each day to hungry Detroiters. He also speaks with former Detroit radio legend, Dick Purtan, about the upcoming Bed and Bread Club Radiothon,... by Daily Detroit

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How Michigan Needs More Money For Roads Plus 6 Other Things To Know: Paul Ajegba, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s nominee to head the Michigan Department of Transportation, faced a grilling in a state Senate committee on Tuesday. And he let slip a rather interesting tidbit, saying that MDOT likely needs another $1.5 billion... by Daily Detroit

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Cold Weather Problems, Gas Tax Hike Floated And Bridge's Truth Tour: Well, it’s cold out. Anyone noticed? If you’re like us, you no doubt noticed the emergency push alert sent to your mobile device Wednesday night, asking you to dial back your thermostats as the temperatures outside were heading to record subzero... by Daily Detroit

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Why Engler Failed, Baker College Coming To Ferndale Plus 7 Other Things To Know: First, huge news from East Lansing, where former Gov. John Engler is expected to resign as interim president of Michigan State University in the wake of comments he made about victims of the Larry Nassar sexual-assault scandal. Engler, you’ll... by Daily Detroit

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