Council to discuss Tiger Stadium’s future today
The Detroit City Council will hold a public meeting at 11:15 a.m. today to discuss the future of the Tiger Stadium project.
One plan includes demolishing the abandoned stadium to make room for mixed-use development. If demolition occurs, there might be a sale of memorabilia from the stadium, a move the council has to approve.
The waiting never ends.
[via Detroit Free Press]
Boralex to buys wind farms
MONTREAL – Boralex Inc. (TSX: BLX) has signed an agreement to acquire nine wind farms, with an installed capacity of 10 megawatts each, in the Windsor, Ont., region.
Wind farms in our backyard?
[via Toronto Star]
Elmore Leonard’s Woodward Avenue
It was 7 cents to catch the streetcar to the base of Woodward Avenue, all the way to the river, and then a nickel for the ferry to Windsor.
They’d stay on the boat, Elmore Leonard says; what could sixth-graders do there that they couldn’t do here? It was just chug across, turn around, come back to Woodward and pop over to the Vernors plant for a free ginger ale.
A Detroit author and screenwriter remembers one of the few designated historic urban roads.
[via DetNews.com]
At Ann Arbor Google office, the good life
But Ann Arbor’s new Google office in the McKinley Town Center on South Division Street - where the mixing of work and play is not only allowed, it’s encouraged - is attracting graduates across the country with its innovative approach to work and life.
“I wanted to be a part of a company that was changing the way things were done,” said Matthew Neagle, a University alum who has been employed by Google for the past year and a half and recently transferred to Ann Arbor from California. “That freshness and that kind of feeling of making things happen and working things out and sort of running at full speed is exciting.”
While many companies locate in Ann Arbor to take advantage of the knowledge worker factory known as the University of Michigan, they often need to also recruit good people who have already moved to the coasts. And these people are looking for more than just a job, a paycheck. They are looking for certain lifestyle amenities. Only recently are some Michigan policymakers realizing that they need to do more to offer these lifestyle perks.
[via Michigan Daily]
Stuff to buy, help — you name it, it’s likely at expo
The NAACP will open the doors to its 38th Commerce and Industry Expo at 2 p.m. today. The event also will include a Retail Expo and health fair.The NAACP will open the doors to its 38th Commerce and Industry Expo at 2 p.m. today. The event also will include a Retail Expo and health fair.The NAACP will open the doors to its 38th Commerce and Industry Expo at 2 p.m. today. The event also will include a Retail Expo and health fair.
The industry expo is to include a broad spectrum of organizations — from Fortune 500 companies and government and social service agencies to minority-owned businesses and institutions of higher education.
The exhibition areas at Cobo Center in Detroit will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Wednesday. The events are free and open to the public. An accompanying job fair will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday for those ages 21 and older.
[via Detroit Free Press]
