In the run up to Michigan’s 2018 gubernatorial election, the revelation that now–Lt. Gov. Garlan Gilchrist owned a blighted Detroit apartment building marked one of the campaign’s biggest scandals.

With the vast amount of land in Detroit, there’s room for innovative housing and development. True North, which has sprung up over the past year, is one of those truly unique ideas. Last summer, we ...

Just over two years ago, billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun announced that he would hand the reins of his international trucking and real estate empire to his son, Matthew Moroun. The younger Moroun ...

An $8.3 million redevelopment project well outside the downtown core officially broke ground today in Detroit. 7.Liv, the redevelopment of the old B. Siegel department store, will have ten residential ...

Thinking about moving to the Motor City? That’s great. Detroit’s population has been on a steady decline over the last half-century, and the city needs some new residents. It’s also got a lot going ...

Another big sale has closed in Boston-Edison this year. So far we’ve seen the Charles T. Fisher Mansion sell for $1.25 million and the Motown Mansion sell for $1.65 million. Now their neighbor, the ...

Development is booming in Detroit. Every month there’s new announcements for transformational projects, multi-million dollar mixed-use buildings, and countless other smaller developments. But behind ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative at the Detroit Equity Action Lab, a program of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. The initiative is ...

Albert Kahn is synonymous with the automobile industry and the growth of Detroit. His Detroit-based firm, founded in 1895, designed such iconic buildings as the Packard Plant, the Fisher Building, and ...

Drive up Linwood Street, just north of I-94 in Detroit’s Northwest Goldberg neighborhood, and you will find yourself nestled among a collection of grand brick homes, some dilapidated and vacant, ...

Ground breaks today on a new project that will bring for-sale homes to two Detroit neighborhoods. Develop Detroit—along with The Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation. JPMorgan Chase, and U.S. Bancorp ...

“Anybody who’s ever been there can tell you it’s the dirtiest square mile in Michigan,” novelist and former high school English teacher Gregory Fournier says of Zug Island. “But for me, it was a kind ...