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February 17, 2014
Bamboo Offers “Family” Style Co-Working Space to Detroit Startups
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 […]
February 17, 2014
New Apt. Building Might Replace Crumbling Midtown Ruin
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. […]
February 17, 2014
Anytime Fitness Restores Old Storefront, Readies to Open Downtown
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 […]
January 24, 2014
Bamboo Detroit Co-working Space Opens to 17 Businesses
AUGUST 22, 2013 DETROIT — Bamboo Detroit — which opened in July to provide shared work space and resources for entrepreneurs — announced today that 17 new businesses are locating in downtown Detroit. Located at 1442 Brush, the space had been unoccupied over a decade before the team of entrepreneurs moved in. The historic […]
December 18, 2013
Anytime Fitness in Curbed Detroit
The rumors are true: Downtown Detroit is getting a new fitness center. A giant (and rather awesome) storefront within the Security Trust Lofts building will be home to Anytime Fitness, a 24-hour fitness chain claiming over 2,000 locations worldwide. According to Michael Ferlito of the Ferlito Group (the company building and operating the gym), most of the demo […]