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Between hiring a new head coach to replacing the turf surface at Keyworth, and preparing to embark on its first-ever season of professional soccer, 2019 promises to be the biggest, most important season yet for Detroit City FC, which plays its final preseason friendly on Saturday at the Flint City Bucks. On today's episode, we talk with soccer journalist, Outer Drive podcast co-host and Daily Detr...

The HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" last week turned its lens on the District Detroit, the Ilitch family's mostly unrealized plan to redevelop 50 blocks as a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood between downtown and Midtown. Predictably, it did not go well for the Ilitches, who received $324 million in taxpayer assistance in exchange for what so far is the Little Caesars Arena, a Kid Rock rest...

Today is a conversation with Howard Hertz, previewing the Detroit Music Awards that are happening this Friday . The annual event has been a lynchpin of the Detroit music scene for years. Hertz is not only the president of the foundation that puts on the event, he's an entertainment lawyer with a roster of clients that's a who's who of Detroit music. Here's that conversation with Sven Gustafson.

Because of disinvestment, changing demographics and the construction of the new bridge to Canada, the Detroit neighborhood of Delray is disappearing. Local author Karen Dybis is working to preserve that history. If she's successful, she could create a template for how the memories and stories of our entire city and region can live on for future generations. In this episode of the Daily Detroit pod...

Farmington Hills-based homebuilder Hunter Pasteur Homes says it plans to build 81 new housing units in Lafayette Park on five acres near St. Aubin and East Lafayette Street, right beside the Dequindre Cut. Called  Pullman Parc , the units will be a mix of townhomes, park homes and corner flats, and they'll range from 620 to 3,500 square feet and run between $250,000 and $750,000. Hunter Pasteur ha...

On your Daily Detroit for Monday, April 22, we dig into a proposal to  develop part of Palmer Park  as "Palmer Square," a mixed-use development featuring luxury condominium towers, "experiential retail" and futuristic architecture. We recently aired an  episode looking into the city's nascent Detroit Exploration and Nature Center , which is being run out of the former golf course headquarters. The...

The news on Good Friday in Detroit was that Steve Yzerman is returning to the Detroit Red Wings as General Manager. As we do, we like to bring someone who's really knowledgable and passionate about the sport we're talking about when we cover it on the Daily Detroit podcast. For hockey, that's Walt Barnes. He's a co-host of the In The Box podcast, a seasonal show focused on hockey also on the Podca...

There's a new real estate development team in town and they have grand designs for a big chunk of property in Detroit's historic Milwaukee Junction. Today we're sharing with you that story. Who are they? And what are their plans for this building in an area that's gaining steam very quickly? Amelia Patt Zamir and Rakesh "Rocky" Lala envision a $20 million redevelopment plan for five vacant buildin...

On our edition of the Daily Detroit podcast for April 17, 2019: Finally, at long last, there will be one united bus fare card in Metro Detroit. It's going to be called DART and will work on both Detroit's DDOT and the suburban system, SMART. Could a high-speed rail service be viable between Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Toledo? The 110-mile-per-hour service could be. [ Toledo Blade ] A wild video of an...

Remember that beautiful old house on the TV show Rehab Addict? The one with Nicole Curtis? If you remember from that show, there was a lot of space around it. Open fields between it and some of the other fortunate old structures to survive. That's not the case anymore. City Modern is rising around it. It's more than 400 units and 24 buildings. The first part of it to open is The Lofts at 124 Alfre...

Tim Robinson, one half of the duo behind the recently canceled Comedy Central series "Detroiters," has a new Netflix show coming out. "I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson" debuts April 23 — that's a week from Tuesday — and will feature Sam Richardson, Robinson's sidekick in the sadly discontinued sketch comedy series, plus SNL vets Cecily Strong, Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte. The trailer, w...

In Detroit, we live surrounded by legends. The musical history of our city is deep, and it's in multiple genres. Today's guest is helping people keep dancing to this amazing music. Dan Austin is the voice behind the indispensable  Historic Detroit , a well-connected man about town and a music fanatic who appears regularly on Ann Delisi's  "Essential Music" show  on WDET-FM. Today, he dropped by th...

The car is synonymous with Detroit. It is, after all, the Motor City. You might even be listening to this in your car. But what if there was a different way forward than a vehicle for every man, woman and even sometimes, child? What if instead of a half hour at the gym then a half hour in your car, you could bike or walk and get to where you're going? Or, like here in Michigan, get around without...

This update edition of the Daily Detroit podcast for April 9, 2019 includes… The city of Detroit's Office of the Inspector General is opening an investigation of the Mayor and city officials after a  Freep report  that says a charity got preference. The city and  Wayne State University strongly push back on the newspaper's report .  The city calls it "completely false." Two people have pled guilty...

Welcome to Monday, April 8, 2019. The weekend is over, that girl is totally not gonna call you, and your dreams are crushed. On today's show, Consumers Energy has issued a report into why its Macomb County natural gas storage and compression facility caught fire on Jan. 30, prompting the utility to issue an emergency request asking people to dial back their thermostats as the mercury plunged below...

People's preferences are changing. There very well may be a day in the not too distant future where a majority of people do not own their own cars. Younger generations seem to be more into the shared economy as opposed to having a love for the personally owned motor vehicle. And sometimes, even if they do love cars, they don't have the financial resources that the previous generation did. To that...

On today's episode, hear firsthand what it's like to bite into a coney pasty. That's a pasty, the traditional U.P. pastry, filled with a Detroit-style coney that's meant to dip into yellow mustard. They're from  Ackroyd's Scottish Bakery  in Redford Township and are available for the month of April. In other news, Amtrak wants to restore passenger rail service between Detroit and Toronto in 2020....

The  Freep Film Festival  starts next week with a gala screening April 10 for "Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem Magazine" at the Fillmore Detroit. On today's episode, we feature three great interviews to preview some of what's on offer during the festivities, which run through April 14: JJ Kramer, co-producer of "Boy Howdy!" JJ is the son of Barry Kramer, the founder and publisher of Creem Magazine,...

It's April, and that means baseball season has arrived to help chase the final remnants of winter out of Detroit. The Tigers play their first home game of the season on Thursday when they host the Kansas City Royals, with first pitch scheduled for 1:10 p.m. First on the podcast we checked in with Chris Brown, host of the podcast  Locked on Tigers  and a writer for Tigs Town, for his rundown of the...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state's insurance regulator to audit the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association after it said on Wednesday it would raise its annual fee by 14.6 percent, or $28, to $220 for every insured vehicle in Michigan. The fees go toward covering catastrophic medical claims from auto accidents, but the MCCA has never been particularly transparent about how it operates,...

If you've ever event spent any time outdoors within a mile's radius of it — say, in Midtown or Eastern Market — then you've no doubt smelled the sickly sweet odor of the Detroit trash incinerator. Well, no more. Detroit Renewable Energy, the umbrella organization that owns and operates it, says it is shutting the incinerator down 33 years after it first fired up because of finances and complaints...

Welcome to your Tuesday edition of Daily Detroit, where we deliver two pieces of big news: 1. Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he has stage four pancreatic cancer and won't seek an eighth term in 2020. 2. DTE Energy says it expects to sign a deal with the city to swap a decommissioned power plant on the east riverfront so it can be used to store Jeeps built at a new factory being...

At least three boutique hotels are coming to Detroit, bringing a dose of luxury to still-gritty parts of the city. The Mid will take shape next to the old hammer-and-nail building on Woodward, while the West Elm Hotel will incorporate the old Bonstelle Theater several blocks south. And downtown, there are plans for a new 154-room hotel at 600 West Lafayette, plus the old Park Hotel downtown just s...

This is a bonus interview edition of your Daily Detroit and this episode is all about cannabis - a potcast, if you will. Marijuana is poised to become a big business opportunity here in Michigan, after voters overwhelmingly voted to grant full legal status to weed last November. Meanwhile, medical marijuana has been legal in Michigan for a decade now, with a new licensing system under way that is...

The last piece of the new Shinola Hotel will open its doors Monday when The Brakeman  starts pouring beers inside its new digs on the corner of John R and Farmer in downtown Detroit. It's part of a new wedge-shaped building that took over a former surface parking lot, and it's an airy, light-filled space, thanks to several garage-door windows that will be able to roll up when the weather warms up....