November 2010
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The Detroit of Italy
This is an intersting story that I’ll have to keep my eye on. Rochelle Riley wrote in today’s Detroit Free Press about Mayor Bing’s visit to Detroit’s “sister” city, Turin, in northern Italy.
It turns out the two are remarkeably similar and low-and-behold, face very similar challenges in this post-industrial era in which we’re currently living in. And...
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Without Detroit, Michigan Will Fail
In today’s The State News, my friend and colleague Kyle Campbell wrote a great a column on what the future success of Detroit means to the entire state of Michigan.
We heard several times over from the campaign trail, from now Governor-elect Rick Snyder, about how he believed the state would be successful going forward only if Detroit shared a stake in that success. For...
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Freep gives us 50 defining foods of the D
I love to eat. There I said it. Detroit, no doubt, has one of the best restaurant scenes of any major city. We love our food and we have a tradition of pumping out some classic dishes and brands over the many decades.
The Detroit Free Press today highlighted the 50 best foods that have helped to define an entire region. Bet you can guess just some of the many foods that made the list. From the...
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"I'm a Believer" in Detroit
I think it’s a safe bet that anyone from the Metro Detroit could probably recall at least one of the many great ad campaigns for the city of Detroit that have aired over the past few decades. The image campaign I probably remember most is the classic “Stand up and tell ‘em you’re from Detroit” that played on Channel 7 during the late 1980s and early 90s and claimed...
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Watchthisismydetroit:
in grad school i took an integrated marketing campaigns class (this was before the HUGE social media marketing boom) and our final project was to create a marketing campaign, start to finish, for a major brand.
my brand was the city of san diego. my entire campaign was this EXACT project. well, not exactly, because social networking wasn’t as evolved so there wasn’t a...
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Bing + Snyder = Detroit turnaround
Nolan Finley of the Detroit News had great column Sunday discussing the possibilities of an alliance between Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Michigan’s Governor-elect Rick Snyder in the wake of a congratulatory letter Bing recently sent to Snyder.
Going forward, Finley cites that a partnership between these two men is something that can only help bridge the divisive divide that has, for too...
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Funding Detroit's Reinvention
The Detroit Free Press today offered up a bit of a reality check, so to speak. In all the talk of the rebirth and reinvention of the Motor City—along with all of the overwhelmingly inspirational can-do attitudes of so many people in around the city as of late—the issue of how to actually pay for Detroit’s way-forward is never talked about much.
Probably because, very few people...
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The End of Excitement
Being a lover of Detroit and thus an unabashed car buff, it was no doubt jarring to watch as some of the most storied car brand of our time fell to their deaths in the wake of the recent economic downturn and near-implosion of the auto industry.
Though it has been common knowledge for quite some time that GM’s Pontiac division was down and out, it was only made officially official a week or...
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The Detroit Shoppe offers the best of the D
Ever wanted to get all the best the Motor City has to offer all in one conveniently located place?
Well, it’s your lucky day then…and you don’t even have to leave the suburbs.
Anyways, The Detroit Shoppe, the newest storefront at the Somerset Collection in Troy, opened it’s doors Monday and is offering up almost anything and everything that is Detroit for purchase. From...
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Some Detroit Gems
The New York Times just loves the D lately and there’s nothing else to it. Not that I’m complaining, of course.
They took the time recently to point out some gems in the Grand Circus Park district (just north of the riverfront) of the Motor City proving that Detroit still has plenty of luster to offer up….you just have to know where to look.
From Roast to the Westin Book...
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Detroit: The Sexy City?
As the TIME: Assignment Detroit blog slowly winds down, one of their bloggers Kristy Erdodi talks about why she moved away from Detroit and Michigan after graduating college, only to find herself come back a few years later.
She also discusses why she thought Chicago—with it’s sexy, big-city appeal—was the only place for opportunities in journalism and how she soon discovered...