With an ever-growing influx of small one- and two-person businesses, freelance and contract workers, and satellite office workers, there is an ever-growing demand for small offices and co-working spaces. Bamboo Detroit, which opened in July, has been building its roster of small businesses and freelancers looking for a space to set up shop in a […]

Did you know MSNBC’s popular morning talk show, “Morning Joe,” was broadcasting from the Motor City today? I did, because my father, who lives upstate in Lansing, started sending a barrage of text messages urging me to tune in starting at 6 a.m. Much as I may have wanted to, I couldn’t sit in front of the […]

An old apartment building on Selden Street might soon face demolition. The Historic District Commission recently approved an application from Ferlito Construction to demolish 438 Selden, which has been abandoned since the 1980s. At Wednesday’s HDC hearing, Ferlito told commissioners that approving the demolition would allow the company to purchase the property from the city of Detroit. […]

Crews were just applying the finishing touches at the Security Trust Lofts when we visited last summer. (They’re now well into leasing.) We also checked out a vast, unfinished storefront with a mezzanine on the ground floor. It was unclaimed at the time, but it would only take seven months for that dark, beat-up space to become something entirely […]