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Making A Splash

Landscape and pool restoration project unveiled at historic Ford estate north of Detroit

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Motor City Remake

Underused park at the foot of Detroit’s transformed Michigan Central Station is getting a $6 million makeover

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Something Old, Something Zoo

Michigan seeks public input for revitalization of Detroit’s long-abandoned Belle Isle Zoo

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Rock Steady

New renderings revealed for SHoP’s downtown Detroit megadevelopment

Freshly Baked Plans

OMA and Library Street Collective reveal plans for sprawling art space at erstwhile commercial bakery in Detroit

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Aria Building

Daily digest: Heatherwick Studio debuts a “tropical opera house,” a fund for rehabilitating Ukrainian heritage sites, and more

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Great Recs

Detroit is investing $45 million to renovate aging recreational centers and build new ones

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Good Bones

Detroit’s blighted Fisher Body Plant 21 will be transformed into sprawling residential complex

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New Leese on Life

Detroit puts $7 million in pandemic relief funds towards reviving iconic Lee Plaza

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Gremlins in the Rearview

Detroit announces redevelopment of long-vacant American Motors Corporation site

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A Fair Deal?

Historic buildings at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds will be incorporated into a new transit center

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When the Shoe Fits

The only HBCU in Michigan will be revived with design focus at Detroit’s College of Creative Studies

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Fan Mail

Oudolf Garden Detroit opens at Belle Isle Park five years after the Dutch plantsman first arrived

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Mass Appeal

Library Street Collective unveils a Detroit campus anchored by a church-turned-art space and Tony Hawk-designed skate park

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A Lifeline, Severed

Daily digest: SCOTUS tosses Biden’s eviction moratorium, Detroit’s iconic Fisher Building hits the market, and more

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Renaissance City Redux

Detroit’s Prince Concepts rejuvenates the business of development while transforming communities in the process

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Revving Up

Design Core announces lineup for the 11th edition of Detroit Month of Design

A recreation of several structures inside of an abandoned church
From Dancehalls to Detroit

Akeem Smith explores memory, Black diaspora, and Kingston’s dancehall scene in his Detroit exhibitions

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