Videos
05/06/12
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Detroit probably will spur much more local job growth than the 120 government positions it will create directly.
05/04/12
PricewaterhouseCoopers to escape jail | A minority supplier is born | Chrysler moves downtown bearing gifts | Huntington banks in Meijer branches | Canadian entrepreneur moves to Motown to build ... bikes
04/27/12
Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams; Marick Masters, a professor of business and an adjunct professor of political science at Wayne State University; Bettie Buss, a senior research analyst at the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council; and Nicolette Bateson, a CPA with Michigan State University's extension program, each drew on their own experiences to provide an overview of Detroit's fiscal crisis, the impacts of a potential municipal bankruptcy and ideas garnered from the restructuring of Washington and the Detroit automakers.
04/23/12
The financial stability agreement that sets the course for Detroit's future has been signed, but the real work of reforming the city's broken budget and service delivery is just beginning.
04/20/12
In This Week in Crain's, we look at the recent surge in home building permits and check in on Tom Gores' new management team at Palace Sports & Entertainment. A new state law could uncork Detroit's liquor license process as Michigan's second-largest brewer moves into Oakland County. We also caught up with Dan Millen, a racecar driver-turned-entrepreneur who has his speed shop gearing up for success.
04/13/12
This Week in Crain's is a new weekly newscast featuring Southeast Michigan's essential business coverage straight from the newsroom of Crain's Detroit Business. To have it arrive every Friday morning in your email inbox, sign up at crainsdetroit.com/crainsemails.
04/05/12
We sent our video intern, Andrew Templeton, out to capture the essence of Opening Day in Detroit. This is what he brought back.
04/02/12
In its seventh year, Crain's 20 in their 20s program highlights the brainpower and entrepreneurial talent of the region's young professionals and creatives. Crain's editors and reporters selected the honorees from among more than 300 nominees.
03/11/12
Waste Management Inc. and other refuse-hauling companies in Kent County aren't going with the flow -- at least not if it means the county would control where all the waste generated in Michigan's fourth-largest population center gets buried, burned or recycled.
03/08/12
Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans Inc., lays out his vision for retail in downtown Detroit at Wednesday's Idea: Detroit conference at the Fox Theatre.
02/26/12
The Rev. Barry Randolph of the Church of the Messiah in Detroit doesn't take the conventional approach to addressing the masses.
02/23/12
Much has been accomplished in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood, but work remains, Crain's co-Newsmaker of the Year Sue Mosey said today at the event's annual luncheon.
02/23/12
If Chrysler Group LLC is going to spend millions of dollars on another two-minute, high-profile Super Bowl commercial, the message won't take shape until shortly before the spot airs.
FROM PRINT EDITION OF CRAIN'S MICHIGAN BUSINESS
02/12/12
This summer, Consumers Energy Co. intends to launch an ambitious program in Michigan that moves more than 2 million business and residential customers onto a system where the utility can read and control its meters remotely and provide 2-day-old data online to customers about their consumption.
SPORTS
02/12/12
Things are back to normal inside Weidenbach Hall. That's the administration building for the University of Michigan's athletics department, the nerve center of Wolverine sports. It's where David Brandon has spent the past two years cleaning up the Rich Rodriguez mess and implementing the management processes that served him so well in the corporate world.
01/27/12
When my coworker Shawn Wright first told me about U Detroit Café, located at 1427 Randolph St. in Paradise Valley, I admit I was nonplussed.
01/12/12
After the two-day press preview wraps up and the throngs of journalists from all over the world leave Detroit for their hometowns, it's the engineers' turn to walk the show floor.
01/10/12
The 2012 North American International Auto Show is still the most prestigious event of its kind in the nation. And if the sights and sounds from Day One are any indication, it will remain so for years to come.
FROM PRINT EDITION OF CRAIN'S MICHIGAN BUSINESS
01/08/12
West Michigan manufacturers of furniture for offices, schools, health care centers and hotels are expected to report respectable gains in revenue as they close their books on 2011. But experts are keeping their fingers crossed that the industry will merely keep steady in the coming year.
01/01/12
When Emre Uralli cashed out all of his real estate investments in 2007, he followed his gut in thinking the real estate market was overheated.
12/16/11
James Cadariu, roast master for Bloomfield Hills Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co., and a cadre of others, including the owners of Great Lakes Coffee Roasting, are opening a coffeehouse/wine bar in Midtown.
12/01/11
When Somerset Collection Marketing Director Linda McIntosh was asked by Mayor Dave Bing to bring the Troy shopping center to Detroit, it was supposed to be a novelty that would last only a few months. But McIntosh says the overwhelming response to CityLoft has been so great, the retail experiment is back for the holidays.
11/17/11
When I walked into Sugar House Bar on Wednesday evening, I found its general manager, David Kwiatkowski — or David K, as he likes to be called — sitting at the 100-year-old bar in a black knit beanie and a black and gold Leelanau Brewing T-shirt.
11/11/11
Is Detroit the new Brooklyn? “No,” David Blaszkiewicz told a real estate conference. “Detroit is the new Detroit.” The president of Invest Detroit and CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership was one of dozens of speakers who talked about the city as part of a two-day real estate conference titled “Detroit: Forged by Innovation.”
11/02/11
In their wildest dreams, Aaron Wagner and Suzanne Vier couldn't have envisioned the instant success of the Tashmoo Biergarten in Detroit. This video of the final day captures the essence of the event.
10/30/11
Last year, Itai Ben-Gal, an engineer from Israel, and Victor Nemirovsky, a software developer from Russia, were working in the auto supply chain. Today, to their surprise, they are smart-app entrepreneurs who work for themselves at a company expected to surpass the $1 million mark in revenue next year.
10/02/11
Crain's Detroit Business held its annual Detroit House Party last Wednesday with more than 30 cocktail parties at Detroit homes followed by an afterglow at the Roostertail. Crain's captured glimpses of some of the homes and scenes of the evening.
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Patent office expected to spur broad job growth
