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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Saturday, March 24th, 2018.

• We go inside the new Amazon Facility in Livonia
• BMW rolls out of the Detroit auto show
• Ferndale may get 97 new residences
• Royal Oak is getting more bike lanes
• The Detroit JazzFest is looking to bring concerts to Detroit neighborhoods
• Ford's marketing head leaves the company
• And one guy has decided to eat his cereal out of a pothole

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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Wednesday, March 21st, 2018.

• The State Fairgrounds site is to be bought by the city and could become a regional transit hub and office development
• The Conner Assembly Plant will find new life as a museum and meeting space
• Contractors for LCA come up short on hiring Detroit residents
• A proposed law would allow Detroit bars to stay open until 4 a.m.
• Gayle's chocolates is closing
• Celebrating legenday architect Albert Kahn's Birthday

As always, thanks to our sponsors. Milo Digital, Marketing Secrets Revealed on May 3, and our friends at Podcast Detroit.

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Tuesday, March 20th, 2018.

-Ford may breathe new life into the long-empty Michigan central station

-Michigan gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer locks up a big union endorsement

-Macomb County's road situation is in dire straits

-Eastern market is offering micro-grants to boost local businesses

-Three of Detroit's Golf Courses won't close after all

-Baseball will be played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull again

-You'll be able to bring your dog to not just one, but two Tigers games this year

-A Hatch Detroit contest winner is opening in Corktown

-Antiques Roadshow is coming to metro Detroit

And we caught up with the head of Detroit's Eastern Market, Dan Carmody, to talk about what's ahead for the historic and popular neighborhood.

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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Thursday, March 15th, 2018.

• Wayne County Exec Warren Evans has a new plan to improve regional transit
• March Madness comes to Detroit
• GM invests in autonomous vehicle production in Michigan
• Detroit businesses will get grants to improve their facades
• Zingerman's is Michigan's only James Beard Award finalist
• A Detroit school is closed due to mold
• Drag Queen Bingo Gets Boozy
• Third Man Records has Jack White tickets for just five bucks
• And there's a new craft cocktail bar for not just booze - but your nose. https://www.castaliacocktails.com/

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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Wednesday, March 14th, 2018.

• Three of Detroit's city-owned golf courses are closing
• A $250 million dollar fund has been set up for affordable housing
• I-94 on the east side of the city will be closed this weekend
• A former golf course over by Seven Mile may find new life as a park and development
• General Motors is launching an Airbnb of cars with Maven
• Belle Isle is getting a new 6-mile trail

And two conversations. One with Ryan Landau of Re:Purpose about Detroit's job market and who's hiring and the other with Jennyfer Crawford of All things Detroit about her new project to highlight Detroit's retailers and makers.

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Here are your stories for Saturday, March 10, 2018:

• Just how far should liquor stores be from each other? The state and small businesses fight it out in court
• The city of Detroit has a new interactive and easy to use crime map
• A familiar face goes off the air after 20 years
• Home building magnate Bill Pulte has died
• Young professionals are sleeping outside to raise money for Detroit's homeless
• A Peruvian restaurant & a Detroit-themed eatery are opening and a chain Irish-themed joint is closing
• A first look at Detroit's newest burger joint Lovers Only

Hey friends! This is you Daily Detroit for Wednesday, March 7, 2018.

Our stories:

-A new plan emerges for the fail jail

-Detroit City FC will be broadcast on Fox Sports Detroit for the first time

-Mexicantown in Detroit is getting support to grow its business district

-Mirror, mirror on the wall.. what are the best Metro Detroit suburbs?

And two conversations.

One focusing on Mayor Mike Duggan's State of the City and Daily Detroit's Shianne Nocerini talks about new spring markets downtown.

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte podcast for Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

On the show:

• Ford is temporarily laying off 2,000 people
• The Detroit Zoo gets a new polar bear
• Detroit gets positive travel press in two ways
• Detroit's Welcome Center May Close
• Le Petit Zinc is open, and the building that housed Antietam is for sale
• Belle Isle is looking for a Food Truck

And.. a local church on the west side of the city is at danger of closing due to scrappers.. And you can help.

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This is your Daily Detroit for Friday, March 2, 2018. We had a really long day on Thursday covering the Detroit Policy Conference, so we were a little slow on getting this episode out - that's why we brought it to you from the back of the struggle bus this week.

Here's what we're covering, including interviews with Detroit Police Chief James Craig and Detroit Schools Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti.

• The Auto Show might move to October from January
• Detroit's police chief and Detroit's school superintendent debate the place of guns in schools.
• The Packard plant is seeing signs of life.
• A restaurant incubator is opening up downtown
• A Big player in local Real Estate moves from Birmingham to downtown Detroit.
• Thanks to a foundation grant, Metro Detroit will get more playgrounds and skate parks
• And more than 700 of Detroit's movers and shakers were at the Detroit Policy Conference today. We recap some of the themes and conversations from the floor of the soundboard at the Motor City Casino.

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This is your Daily Detroit News Byte Podcast for February 27, 2018.

Our Detroit news stories today:

• Detroit has a new budget and that could mean more officers on the streets
• All of Detroit's election day poll workers are to be re-tested
• A long time Detroit politician, Burton Leland, has died.
• You can get some ice cream to soothe your pothole woes.
• Big Sean and and Emagine team up to open a movie theatre in the city.
• A steel factory opens in the city of Detroit.
• Autonomous vehicle news

And, we preview what's happening the next couple of days, including our booth at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Detroit Policy Conference (if you're going, say hi!) and an upcoming Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast with Hour Magazine & PARC, their restaurant of the year.

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• MILO Digital
• Metro Detroit Podcaster Meetup March 8

We have our own Daily Detroit Drinks meetup this Thursday, March 1 at Two James. More here.