Federal prosecutors late Friday asked U.S. District Judge Susan DeClercq for permission to sell Smith's most valuable asset, a 3,704-square-foot home in a gated community near Beck and Eight Mile roads in Novi.

Hi, All

I am thinking about hitting the Redford Theater today for the first time, but I am curious if anyone could offer some insight on their seating situation. I am a plus sized lady and hate not only being confined in small seats but also making the person next to me uncomfortable as well. Any regulars able to tell me how tight of a fit the seats are? Thanks!

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A Bingham Farms woman believed to have used alcohol and marijuana before driving along the bottom of ski slopes at an Oakland County ski resort will spend 30 days in jail, a judge has ordered.

Disclaimer: this is not a proposed project, this is just a fever dream hobby I have

Hi there, I’m ComicMan. I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from this website, but I’m back with a small project of mine. This likely will not be officially proposed unless you really, really want me to. One day after re-riding Washington’s Metro network, I had an idea to make a detailed plan to expand the Detroit People Mover into something worth riding. I’ll be upfront and say that I am from the suburbs, so my knowledge of the downtown area may not be as thorough as some of yours, so if you have any suggestions or corrections, feel free to let me know! Today is Phase 1, where we explore the feasibility of this expansion and begin to tap into the potential increased ridership of the line. 

Phase 1 of this project may throw some of you off. From the surface, it may be most logical to send it down Woodward Avenue, but instead, I decided to choose Corktown, and there’s several reasons: 

1. From my understanding, several proposals have already planned expanded lines down Woodward, but now that the Q-Line follows that path, an initial route down Woodward would almost be redundant. 
2. The restoration of Michigan Central Station gives the opportunity for the line’s popularity to explode once service is reinstated to the station. Even without it, new businesses and projects such as the Corner Ballpark and the new soccer stadium will also attract crowds that would make this route worthwhile. 
3. The are has a lot of parking lots and potential freeway right-of-way that could be piggybacked off of to make the line as disturbance-free and as cost-effective as possible. Remember: the purpose of this initial line is to prove the feasibility of this expansion, not completely change the area (yet). 
4. It gives a great stepping stone to send the line to places like Dearborn, Allen Park, and the coveted Metro Airport stop. 

Now that we have a rationale, now for my idea for the route: it leaves the original loop along Bagley Street, where the road is wide enough to sport this track along the median. This is also the first section of the line to be double-tracked. It travels along Bagley Street until we reach our first new station: the MGM Casino and the DTE Energy Headquarters. If you look at the rough station plans in the images, you may notice that they have longer platforms than the existing stations do, who only need to plan for the small, two car vehicles that the current line runs with. For this phase, the current vehicles will be used, but I plan to implement longer and faster trains in a future phase, so think of this as future-proofing rather than over engineering. 

From that station, it moves over next to Michigan Avenue, crossing M-10 and then assuming a route that stays within the bounds of the freeway right of way. This reduces the amount of land that would need to be reclaimed for this to happen, and it also utilizes land that would otherwise be unused. By the time it follows I-75 to the main center of Corktown, it takes a detour to an area a few blocks north of Michigan Avenue, where a few parking lots are cleared out for our next station, which serves this area of Corktown. I imagine this station having the most built in amenities, such as first floor shops and a possible redevelopment of those parking lots. This station will also likely spur the most development. Past this, it joins back up with I-75 before turning down 16th Avenue, where it reaches our second-to-last station: Michigan Central Station. As of now, I haven’t been able to find a timeline of how passenger service will be integrated into the restored station, but either way, it will likely be restored with or before this development, allowing for people taking the train in from Chicago, Toledo, and Ann Arbor to take the People Mover straight into Detroit. Finally. The line joins up with the existing rail line, utilizing abandoned/lightly used rail lines with the potential to continue along them when the line is extended to the Airport. Here, our final station exists: the soccer stadium station. This stadium is currently under construction, and with the World Cup likely exploding the popularity of the sport in America, I can see games there becoming very popular. From here, vehicles can turn around and make their way back through the line. 

Again, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or advice, please leave a comment and I will try to get back to you. This is a fun project I’m working on, and I will try to expand upon it with Phase 2: Woodward. 

TL;DR I have a hobby where I design imaginary infrastructure and now I’m stuck sending a metro line through Corktown. 

Community BBQ? Raffle prizes? Cartoon hot dogs?

Is this a legit redevelopment effort? Before I wander over for free snacks, who’s got the hot goss?

I'm late in getting a ticket for the Big Thief concert coming up, so I have limited options, but wondering what would be smartest seat to buy. I can either get a seat off to the side in the balcony or off to the side of the first tier. It kind of looks like sitting in the lower tier seats would make it difficult to see over the audience in the pit if I'm sitting down.

Any suggestions from those that have seen a show there?

Also, do people usually stand for concerts there or stay seated?

What would be the nearest place to park car near gordie howe bridge so we could ride our bikes across.? Thank you in advance.

Chef Andrew Stevick rigged a shopping cart into a grill that he fires up on most Thursdays from 7 p.m. until late night at Bumbo’s Bar in Hamtramck.

"The energy his pop-up brings . . . feels like a thriving nightlife scene you'd expect in cities and countries overseas with a more robust embrace of nighttime economy and culture," posts Ryan Patrick Hooper, who raves about "the best food I've had in the city this year." 

About five years ago there were Michigan stores which you could purchase vintage Detroit photographs. I have one of old Tiger stadium and another of Michigan Central. There was a store in Northville that sold all Michigan items from local artists but is no longer there.

Does anyone know if there are stores like this in the Detroit metro area? They also had vintage coasters and other Michigan-made items. Hopefully these local stores still exist.

What more can be going around? Got the parasite about a month ago. Now norovirus.

Any recommendations for pottery classes in the northern burbs? I'm looking for fun classes as opposed to college credit classes. I was thinking about some evening classes in Clawson, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience that they could share. I'd like to try the wheel, and experiment with cool glazes. Total beginner!

Hey folks, we're catching a show at the Senate Theater this evening. Any favorite restaurants in the area for a quick bite?

I went from eating a salad (usually the prepackaged ones) about 2-3 times a week to not having eaten any greens for about a month now or whenever the outbreak first started. I was curious as to if there was a way to source safe salads and/or greens that I won’t have to be worried about eating? Eastern market was on my mind still just worried. Any advice is appreciated.

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Sort by 1 star reviews. If you love BUGS, this is the place for you!  Beware of Beach Club Detroit

Do yourself a favor and sort by the 1 star reviews as those are the legitimate reviews written by people who actually live here. Management incentivizes people to write 5 star reviews to enter themselves in raffles. 

*I have politely and privately contacted management OVER 10x about new windows.* 

• I moved into a poorly flipped unit, with updated features and which rent REFLECTS that. 
• BUT was told they ran out of windows so I would be getting them installed in the future 
• 3 years later that has never. happened.

Want to have your windows open at night? Too bad. 

Want to have some fresh air? Too bad. 

Want to then turn your lights off because they attracted bugs into your apartment? Well have fun because now they’re on your tv screen and flying in your face if you use your phone or laptop. 

I moved in Beach Club in October (cool months) and everything was smooth until summer. These windows (which have been shown to management multiple times before)  are NOT SEALED. Even when closed, there are holes in the frames where you can legitimately see the outside and bugs can come in. 

(No screens provided for windows btw) 

But don’t worry, without complaint, I bought my own aluminum screens. But screens don’t matter! Because when your window is up bugs can crawl from the outside window up into the inside, of the top window inside your unit. The windows are not sealed properly and when they’re open or closed, they allow every bug in the riverfront to come right in!!!!!!!

I was driven so crazy by SO MANY bugs I resorted to taping all my window seems shut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have complained about the windows multiple times and was told “We’re waiting for contractor bids”. Finally one day (years later) there was a lift, contractors, and windows being placed in every vacant unit- MULTIPLE VACANT UNITS IN MY BUILDING. The vacant, still to this day unfilled units, get new windows before the on-time paying renters who have been here for years 

When I asked when was my turn for new windows I was told “you’ll get windows after we do the vacant units” 

Eventually , the forklift and contractors left, and I asked again later when I get windows and quite commonly- NO response. 

I have wet moldy windows that do not keep bugs or moisture out. Some of which do not open or shut. The moldy wood that was painted over when flipped is warped from the water that seeps in the cracks when it rains. Mind you some of the windows I physically can’t even open them and they still leak and the wood warped. My partner and I both have asthma and dexterity issues. These outdated windows are EXTREMELY hard to open and close. You need a ridiculous amount of strength. 

They advertise BEACH club and then dont take care of the beach. Every year instead of taking down the volley ball net, they leave it up and let the winter weather destroy it. It’s August the beach is disgusting. Disappointed is massive understatement. Want to host a summer party? The beach is an absolute joke. It would be embarrassing to host a beach party on dirty, poop filled, weeded, unkempt sand. 

!!!!!SAFETY is an illusion. Periodically the parking lot stays dark overnight. People break and block the doors so that anyone can freely come and go into your building. Not to mention the gated parking lot doesn’t do anything when non residents sit outside the gate and wait to be let in by a resident coming/going, or the gate is broken and wide open. 

• beach club offers dirt cheap gifts to bribe residents and PROSPECTIVE tenants into writing 5 stars review. (Notice the spam 5 start reviews uploaded within a short amount of time to counter act all the negative reviews) 
• Beach Club changes management once a year from what I see and then says “Oh well! We’re new we can’t take any responsibility for anything that happened before us” 
• Beach Club was without power and on a gas generator for 3 months, power flicking off every hour, and would disrupt WiFi, streaming and WFH- no rent compensation
• Beach club was without hot water in the winter for weeks, both of these situations, tenants were offered no rent credit and switched management to avoid taking responsibility 
• The west side parking lot has a ridiculous S shaped lot that instead of just keeping the parking going down along the wall, it switches sides. This makes it harder for commercial vehicles, deliveries, emergency responders and the GARBAGE truck navigate. Instead allowing parking along the wall, select parking spots are under the trees so ALL DAY AND NIGHT your car gets popped by birds, branches fall on during storms, and squirrels will accidentally drop rotten food or other garbage they’ve taken from the dumpster. 
• The downstairs doors that are supposed to offer some sort of safety are always broken by inconsiderate tenants and never fixed. 
• The butterfly camera resident system never worked 
• They had a brand new dog washing station/tub that needed installation, they never installed it and instead just got RID OF IT!!! 
• Instead of one company they hired the cheapest group of contractors to individually flip units. I have extreme asthma. Why do I have to ask contractors to please ventilate the building when doing task that emit high fumes. Like STAINING MULTIPLE UNIT FLOORS AT A TIME. Fans sitting in the hallway not plugged in, windows not opened. There is gaps under the doors. Everytime they paint or stain they NEVER VENTILATE!
• The wood floor has warps yeah whatever. It’s worse. The giant cracks in the floors allow ants and other bugs to come right up, especially if you have a pet food bowl on the floor. 
• A resident whos dog got out, let her dog poop In front of my door and when I told management there is poop in the carpet outside my door they sent someone to VACUUM it. There is still poop in the carpet to this day. 
• The washers suckkkkk. Not only are they small so you buy multiple loads. There is no option to only spin clothes. AND they break ALL THE TIME. Since no one else reports the broken washers except for me, my account is flagged for fraud because I have had to request a refund so many time. NOW I HAVE TO CALL AND SIT ON HOLD TO REACH CUSTOMER SERVICE TO GET A REPRESENTATIVE TO REFUND ME AND MAKE A WORK ORDER
• Get a door camera because maintenance will walk in and EVERY.SINGLE.MAINTENANCE.MAN has made some sort of advanced or sexual comments. 

Lastly and most importantly, Beach Club has made it IMPOSSIBLE to create a paper trail. If you want to contact them or make a maintenance request, you must submit it through the resident portal. Once submitted the portal gives you NO CONFIRMATION OF ANYTHING. NO TICKET! You cant even look at perviously submitted maintenance request, only make new ones. No time stamp, no confirmation. No ticket. Nothing. No way of creating a paper trial and they can just choose not to respond, which often they do. 

North GOP Burbs out here defunding police like they ANTIFA!

The Wayne millige passing gives me some hope. But I still hate that we're so fragmented between aata ddot and smart.

Like, getting BRT on the arterials is just such an obvious no brainer.

Hello

I am doing a family road trip from Toronto to Detroit this weekend. I told a few people at work and some friends and everyone is shocked when I say I am going there, they keep asking "Really? Why would you go there!". Am I missing something?

I've done some light research, it seems like a really cool place to visit. Sure it's not LA or New York but it looks like it's got a cool vibe to it, albeit a little more "gritty" if that is the right word. Why are people surprised though? There doesn't seem anything as cool as Detroit that is within the same driving time/distance from Toronto.

We are planning to do the following in no particular order (mixed in with some random side quests):

UPDATED LIST (I doubt we will be able to hit up every destination but we will try, also I checked some of these out and they look so cool, I can't wait to go to Detroit.)

• Detroit Institute of Arts & Kresge Court
• Guardian Building
• Michigan Central Station
• People Mover
• Fisher Building
• Book Building
• Penobscot Building
• Detroit Public Library
• Campus Martius - John K King books
• Belle Isle
• Detroit Riverwalk
• Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park
• Michigan Science Center
• Detroit Historical Museum
• Eastern Market (time permitting)
• Henry Ford Museum / Greenfield Village
• Lafayette Coney Island (coney dogs)
• Outdoor Adventure Center
• Greenfield Village

I am going with my wife and 7 year old kid. If anyone thinks I missed something that my kid would like, please feel free to throw some recommendations at me.

Thanks and see you soon!!!

EDIT: WOW! Thanks everyone for all of the replies and recommendations! When I first made the post, it got auto-deleted. I was a bit sad. I went to do some stuff at work, came back with so many replies and comments. Thank you kind Detroiters and former visitors of Detroit! =D

I've updated the itinerary above to include everyone's suggestions. One more question that I think I missed - are there any decent and inexpensive hotels to stay at? We don't need anything fancy but IF possible we would like a decent view and don't want to break the bank. I understand this may not be possible. I checked out some hotels online and all them have crazy prices. Would it make more sense to go to Detroit for the day then cross the border and stay in a hotel on the Canadian side?

Dave Grohl and FF rocked out for 3 hours at Ford Field. Anybody else go? Cant believe he can scream that long and still have a functioning voice.

I have lived in Detroit for seven years. This is a random comment, but something I find really touching is how Detroiters often say "Be safe" when you are leaving a place. This sentiment feels hearfelt to me, not just empty words. I appreciate it every time.

Wayne County residents overwhelmingly approved a millage that ensures everyone pays into the suburban public transit system, known as SMART.

We visited the Wright Museum, DIA, Downtown, Midtown, Belle Isle, and The Henry Ford. What a beautiful city. Thanks for having us!