B@ck to Detroit

Thoughts on Detroit's plan to place three highway caps over I-75 to help with the cohesion of downtown? Seems the input narrows down to the placement and width of the central cap across from Little Caesars Arena. #detroit

Where in Detroit should we copy paste?

115 'No Kings' protests planned in Michigan for March 28. See where freep.com/story/news/loc…

Robotics giant plans massive $90M plant in metro Detroit, 225 jobs. crainsdetroit.com/manufacturing-…

Oh like the Nazis did

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Brush Park and Mexicantown projects secure state funding for mixed-use developments #Echobox=1773856616" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/br…

A long-in-the-works second phase to the Rouge Gateway Greenway project is slated to begin construction this year, extending a riverside trail system an additional 1.9 miles. #dearborn ($) buff.ly/o2iwz4R

Sheffield wants to build 1,000 homes in Detroit in next 4 years. freep.com/story/news/loc… via @freep

MDOT creating an I-375 Youth Focus Group that will help identify how arts, history, and culture will be represented through urban design in and around the I-375 corridor. Open to ages 14-24 preferably in zip codes 48207 & 48201. buff.ly/Ci5TwDd

Detroit Month of Design meeting tonight, 5:30p at 2200 Hunt St, Detroit, MI 48207.

Mexican restaurant expands to downtown Detroit. crainsdetroit.com/restaurants/pe… via @crainsdetroit

Denmark-based investor targets Michigan for $1B-plus battery energy storage projects. crainsdetroit.com/economic-devel… via @crainsdetroit

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

Cade Cunningham on how much he loves Detroit. “I love the people here. I love the camaraderie. It’s such a hardworking city. Everybody loves the sports teams, and the sports teams love the city because it has so much life and character to it. So there’s nowhere else I would have chosen to play. I didn’t know I was going to love it as much as I do, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Via @FanDuelSN_DET

Mexican restaurant expands to downtown Detroit #Echobox=1773417106" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crainsdetroit.com/restaurants/pe…

Demolished earlier this week

Lobby-maxxing is also a favorite Detroit pastime.

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