Daily Detroit

On this edition of your Daily Detroit, we're checking in on what's new in the historic and beautiful Woodbridge neighborhood.

it's one of the city's older neighborhoods, with people moving in starting in the 1870s.

It's named after William Woodbridge. he was the Governor of Michigan from 1840-1841 and much of the neighborhood sits on what used to be his farm.

It's located near Grand River, Wayne State University, Midtown and is a great position to benefit from Detroit's resurgence. It contains some of the best examples of turn of early 1900s homes in the city and an eclectic mix of dedicated residents.

In recent years it's gotten new restaurants and is dealing with the impacts, both good and bad, of skyrocketing property values.

To talk about it, our guest is Angie Gaabo, the Executive Director of Woodbridge Neighborhood Development.

- There are more details on the mysterious disappearance of a Detriot house owned by a State Representative

- The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit says it's received a $5 million matching gift as part of its $15 million Future Fund capital campaign.

- Project officials tell us that flooding and high water on the island park has delayed this fall's planned installation of the two-and-a-half-acre garden by world-renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf

- Want free pizza? Sicily's is your ticket on October 22

- And, buy one get one free burgers at BurgerIM

- The Allen Park Digital Cinema Closes

- And Fletcher Sharpe checks in on what promises to be Detroit City FC's most important game of the season

Detroit is a city with a lot of ideas worth spreading.

The 11th TEDxDetroit conference looks to highlight those and gather local luminaries from a variety of fields, along with some pretty powerful and superstar guests including Nicole Curtis from HGTV's Rehab Addict and many others.

To talk about the event on November 6, 2019 is Shawn Lee. He's the Director of Photography for the event and an entrepreneur himself.

If you're interested in learning more about the event or attending, you can go here.

Hey Friends! Here's what's happening around town.

- An update on day 22 of the GM/UAW Strike

- Lead has been found in the water in the suburbs of Birmingham and White Lake

- The Detroit Pistons open a shiny new practice facility

- Another one of the food stalls inside the Fort Street Galley in downtown Detroit says it plans to close up shop

- A new report says Detroit is one of the least green cities in America

- Jeff Daniels is going to play controversial former FBI director James Comey on screen

- I-275 has a major project coming

- And I-96/M-39 is getting an emergency repair because there are holes in the bridge

- You can support women experiencing homelessness at Canine To Five in Detroit or Ferndale

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Starting a business is hard, and even more challenging in a city like Detroit. But there is help out there.

Today's episode is your opportunity to hear from five different entrants to the Hatch Detroit contest. They're the winners of a public vote from the top 10.

That annual event sponsored by Comerica bank grants $100,000 to a business to start their brick and mortar location somewhere in Detroit, Hamtramck or Highland Park.

The finalists are Brix Wine & Charcuterie, The French Cow, Ilera Apothecary, 27th Letter Books, and Street Beet.

We're going to talk to each of the five would-be grantees and executive director Vittoria Katanski. And after listening to the show, if you want to vote for your favorite, you can do so here.

On today's show, we hit on the headlines of the day from the GM/UAW Strike to new restaurant openings, plus talk to Nieron Hales from Zingerman's Corman Farms about their innovative and affordable Tiny Weddings. https://www.thetinywedding.com/

Jason Hall is a community advocate and bike enthusiast who you might know from those Apple TV ads awhile back showing off the famous group ride, Slow Roll.

What you might not know is that after co-founding that event and non-profit, he's on to some new paths.

One is RiDetroit, showing the beauty of Detroit through a variety of walking and bike tours.

The other? The new Electric Avenue Bikes on Woodward. They specialize in E-bikes. That technology gives you an extra boost when you pedal, opening up a bunch of new options on two wheels.

And it's my opinion that Detroit is a city that is best experienced by bike.

So join me for my conversation with Jason.

Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week is October 4-13, 2019 and it brings 24 restaurants to the table highlight food from a variety of Latin countries and regions.

Monica Casarez and Juan Carlos Dueweke Perez stopped by the studio to talk about this exciting event. More information here.

In other news:

• We share information about the impending demolition of the Detroit Saturday Night building and ask if yet more surface parking lots is the right thing to do in a downtown Detroit that has already devoted 40 percent of its space to parking
• And in news you'll either be very excited for, or very not, there's a hard seltzer event coming to Royal Oak in December.

Hello friends. Today we're covering StateBudgetPalooza, in which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed all 16 budget bills sent at the 11th hour by Republicans, but only after making 147 line-item vetoes totaling nearly $1 billion, unleashing hilarity on the Great Lakes State. Is this any kind of way to do state budgeting? We discuss.

Elsewhere, soccer correspondent Fletcher Sharpe joins us to run down the big news that Detroit City FC will launch a women's team in 2020 to compete in the United Women's Soccer, the second-tier pro league.

Also:

• Auburn Hills police are looking for two people who allegedly broke into a shack and loaded an adult video onto a digital billboard on I-75 over the weekend. Someone on our Facebook page called it the "best crime of 2019"
• A house owned by a nonprofit run by state Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, D-Detroit, was inexplicably and mysteriously demolished.
• And chef Max Hardy may be closing his River Bistro in northwest Detroit, but he's added a second night to his Jamaican Reggae Dinner pop-up at Frame in Hazel Park on Saturday. Deets here.

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Man about town Devon O'Reilly joins us in the studio to talk about Detroit's openings and closings. One of the notable openings? Smith And Co. And closings include a circus-themed bar no one understood in Grand Circus Park.