The takeaway at this year's North American International Auto Show? U.S. automakers are back. The mood was palpably spirited on the show floor and attendance was up over the last several auto shows, which pays off at the dealerships.
On December 7, officials from the city of Inkster, Wayne County and the state of Michigan unveiled the first building of a new, $25-million Inkster Market Place development. The Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) will move into the 32,100-square-foot building on Michigan Avenue near John Daly in early January.
Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) officials and community leaders celebrated the groundbreaking last month of a planned multi-purpose recreation center. The proposed Wayne County HYPE Recreation Center, a collaborative venture among Wayne County, HYPE Athletics and Zaman International, will feature a variety of recreational activities including basketball and volleyball courts, indoor batting cages, a 7,000-square-foot weight room and an indoor track.
With the opening of the Michigan Center for Regenerative Medicine in Plymouth Township, Wayne County moved a step closer to establishing itself as a national center for excellence in the emerging field of adult stem-cell therapy.
The Wayne County program – Urban Farming Initiative for Reentering Citizens – replaces blighted lots with colorful vegetable gardens, grows fresh produce for Detroit neighborhoods and helps transition felons who work the gardens back into the real world.
How community spirit goes, so goes a city. In Grosse Pointe Park, community spirit is active and the city shows. It's one of the finer cities around. Drive it, you'll see.
The abandoned apartment building was known in the neighborhood as "The Carter" from the1991 crime thriller movie New Jack City. Like "The Carter," the empty and blighted 30,000-square-foot apartment building in the 12000 block of Dexter, on Detroit's northwest side, turned victim in its last days to drugs, gangs and violence.
Wayne County is in the midst of a demolition project in partnership with the city of Detroit and faith-based groups. The county has allocated $4.5 million for the effort.
The city's website markets itself as the dining capital of Downriver. And when you drive the nearly seven square miles of Southgate, it has its share of eateries: Irish, Thai, German, Polish, a lot of national chain restaurants and then some mom-n-pop kind of joints.
If there was such a thing as a City of Wyandotte business dictionary, a dictionary only of Wyandotte's business community lexicon, the word "competition" would not be in it.The business community, in the words of Downtown Development Authority Chairwoman Patt Slack, is "welcoming and excited" whenever a new business snips the ceremonial ribbon to open its doors and frame its first five-dollar bill of business.
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