News 7.18.11

Featured

New initiatives, entrepreneurs reviving Motor City
‘A kind of mecca for creative people’
http://www.windsorstar.com/business/initiatives+entrepreneurs+reviving+Motor+City/5110539/story.html

Motown Blues: Foundations and Government Struggle for Solutions and with Each Other
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14066:motown-blues-foundations-and-government-struggle-for-solutions-and-with-each-other&catid=153:features&Itemid=336

Five questions with Claire Nelson, owner of Bureau of Urban Living in Midtown Detroit
http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/FEATURES01/107170333/Five-questions-Claire-Nelson-owner-Bureau-Urban-Living-Midtown-Detroit

Battling Energy Waste in Hot, Rich Cities (cool video inside)
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/battling-energy-waste-in-hot-rich-cities/

Transportation / Transit

Tom Walsh: Light rail transit dream no sure thing
http://www.freep.com/article/20110715/COL06/107150322/Tom-Walsh-Light-rail-transit-dream-no-sure-thing?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

'Aerotropolis' expert says St. Louis will never be one
http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/david-nicklaus/article_a377c6bd-a005-57a2-a63d-227599165b77.html

Delta seeks to end service to 5 northern Michigan airports
http://www.freep.com/article/20110716/FEATURES07/107160321/Delta-seeks-end-service-5-northern-Michigan-airports

Editorial: Rigid labor shields put transit progress at risk
http://www.freep.com/article/20110716/OPINION01/107160314/Editorial-Rigid-labor-shields-put-transit-progress-risk

Michigan airports to lease land for energy crop production
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/7930/michigan-airports-to-lease-land-for-energy-crop-production

The Matthew Moroun Interview: On second spans, truck traffic forecasts and why the Ambassador Bridge company doesn't want to operate the NITC
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/07/the_matthew_moroun_interview_o.html

Detroit / Urban Revitalization

Ron Dzwonkowski: What Detroit can learn from out-of-town visitors
http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/COL32/107170601/Ron-Dzwonkowski-What-Detroit-can-learn-from-out-town-visitors

First cruise passengers due to arrive Monday at new Detroit River terminal
http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/NEWS01/107170531/First-cruise-passengers-due-arrive-Monday-new-Detroit-River-terminal

Population on the rise in Detroit
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7373589n&tag=mncol%3Blst%3B1

The Impulsive Traveler: In Detroit, ruin porn and an incipient renaissance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-impulsive-traveler-in-detroit-ruin-porn-and-an-incipient-renaissance/2011/07/06/gIQAF5XNGI_story.html

Businesses boost creativity in Detroit

http://thesouthend.wayne.edu/index.php/article/2011/07/businesses_boost_creativity_in_detroit

In aiding Detroit, Kresge head learns impatience is no virtue
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110715/OPINION03/107150395/1409/metro

Neighbor cheers judge's repair order of crumbling Wurlitzer skyscraper
http://www.freep.com/article/20110716/NEWS01/107160369/Neighbor-cheers-judge-s-repair-order-crumbling-Wurlitzer-skyscraper

MARY KRAMER: In down housing market, Detroit has draw
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/SUB01/307179982/mary-kramer-in-down-housing-market-detroit-has-draw

Is Federal Reserve building another Dan Gilbert deal?
http://www.freep.com/article/20110715/BUSINESS04/107150320/Is-Federal-Reserve-building-another-Gilbert-deal-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Dan Gilbert's Detroit Monopoly game continues with reports of a fifth building purchase
http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2011/07/dan_gilberts_monopoly_game_of.html

More rent subsidies coming to entice young leaders to move into Detroit
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110714/STAFFBLOG09/110719941

Brewster site now sellable?: Midtown growth has some optimistic
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/SUB01/307179996/brewster-site-now-sellable-midtown-growth-has-some-optimistic

Detroit housing agency cleans up voucher program, can keep HUD funding
http://www.freep.com/article/20110718/NEWS01/110718068/Detroit-housing-agency-cleans-up-voucher-program-can-keep-HUD-funding?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

New dock expected to draw cruise ships to rejuvenated Detroit waterfront
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110718/METRO01/107180373/New-dock-expected-to-draw-cruise-ships-to-rejuvenated-Detroit-waterfront

Neighborhood near river weathers economic storm
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/18/business-us-detroit-riverfront-growth-michigan_8570402.html

New Port Opens On Detroit River
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/28587201/detail.html

Business / Auto / Energy

Food truck rolls in with big plans as a trendsetter
http://detnews.com/article/20110716/BIZ/107160324/1001/Food-truck-rolls-in-with-big-plans-as-a-trendsetter

Mexican grill paves road for legal food trucks downtown: It took 60 trips to City Hall to snag permit
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/FREE/307179990/mexican-grill-paves-road-for-legal-food-trucks-downtown-it-took-60

Tom Walsh: Friends create their jobs at start-up design firm in Detroit
http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/COL06/107170441/Tom-Walsh-Friends-create-their-jobs-start-up-design-firm-Detroit

Energy Secretary Chu Promotes New Detroit-based R&D Partnership With Military
http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2011/07/18/energy-secretary-chu-promotes-new-detroit-based-rd-partnership-with-military/

Americans love their SUVs ... from Detroit
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/07/americans-love-suvs-from-detroit-ford-explorer-jeep-wrangler-chevrolet-equinox-/1

Who Wins, Who Loses as Detroit Embraces Silicon Valley
http://www.bnet.com/blog/auto-industry/who-wins-who-loses-as-detroit-embraces-silicon-valley/1144

Solar firm sees future with UAW: Production plan needs ‘automotive discipline'
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/FREE/307179995/solar-firm-sees-future-with-uaw-production-plan-needs

Part of the solar system: Nova among firms out to make a big bang in growing industry
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/SUB01/307179964/part-of-the-solar-system-nova-among-firms-out-to-make-a-big-bang-in

Michigan battery maker to celebrate 1,000th hire
http://www.freep.com/article/20110718/BUSINESS06/110718004/Michigan-battery-maker-celebrate-1-000th-hire?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

National Policy & Politics

The Difference Engine: Priced off the road?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/07/fuel-economy

Patent Office Expansion Seen as New Jobs-Rich Research Triangle
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-14/patent-office-expansion-seen-as-new-jobs-rich-research-triangle.html

The U.S. Energy Challenge
http://www.cfr.org/energy/us-energy-challenge/p25485

Boosting the Great Lakes International Economy
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-avenue/92140/boosting-the-great-lakes-international-economy

Rocky road
Congress is also snarled up over how to keep America moving
http://www.economist.com/node/18958665?story_id=18958665&fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/rockyroad


Michigan Policy & Politics

KEITH CRAIN: Maybe we just don't have the money
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110717/SUB01/307179978/keith-crain-maybe-we-just-dont-have-the-money

The message from Rick Snyder, New York Mayor Bloomberg: ‘Immigrants create jobs'
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110718/FREE/110719902/the-message-from-rick-snyder-new-york-mayor-bloomberg

Regional News

Some balk at Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel's office budget
http://www.freep.com/article/20110716/NEWS05/107160391/Some-balk-Macomb-County-Executive-Mark-Hackel-s-office-budget?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Macomb County goes online with dashboard of its financial data
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110715/FREE/110719920

Macomb Co. commissioner proposal would dock pay for arriving late, leaving early
http://www.freep.com/article/20110718/NEWS05/107180321/Macomb-Co-commissioner-proposal-would-dock-pay-arriving-late-leaving-early?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Macomb County sues Kilpatrick, Ferguson over repairs to sewer
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110718/METRO03/107180395/1409/Macomb-County-sues-Kilpatrick--Ferguson-over-repairs-to-sewer

Patterson to address ways to help struggling Pontiac
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110718/METRO02/107180396/1409/METRO

Culture

In photos: Woodward Avenue -- our Main Street
http://detnews.com/article/20110717/METRO/107170315/In-photos--Woodward-Avenue----our-Main-Street

The census says they're dying, but rural Michigan towns strive for Internet-driven revival
http://www.freep.com/article/20110717/NEWS06/107170539/The-census-says-they-re-dying-rural-Michigan-towns-strive-Internet-driven-revival