Detroit MI Business Archive

DETROIT, Mich. — A conference built on the idea that people who post content online can become business owners returns to Huntington Place in Detroit this November. CreatorCon opens Nov. 13 and runs into that weekend, pairing creators with entrepreneurs and small business owners for two-plus days of meetups, hands-on classes and live selling demos.

DETROIT, Mich. — A Lions victory over the Minnesota Vikings this Sunday at Ford Field in Detroit would earn fans a free snack the next day from a homegrown chicken chain. Detroit Wing Company says it will give each customer an order of five boneless wings at no charge on Monday, Nov. 2, if the

LIVONIA, Mich. — Metro Detroit lost its final Daly Drive-In on Wednesday, when the Livonia burger stand closed for good after 67 years and a farewell crowd big enough to empty its kitchen. The restaurant, which opened in 1959, stands where Plymouth and Merriman roads meet. The Daly name goes back to a Dearborn Heights

DETROIT, Mich. — A string of new bars and restaurants on Kercheval Avenue near Van Dyke has become a flash point on Detroit’s east side after District 5 Council Member Renata Miller asked city departments to look into the alcohol-serving businesses there. Miller’s memo sought information, a zoning-compliance review and a look at neighborhood impact.

DETROIT, Mich. — Filling up in Metro Detroit costs a lot more than it did a week ago. AAA put the area’s average for regular unleaded at $4.8188 a gallon on Tuesday, up from $4.5095 seven days earlier. The Tuesday number is a small break from Monday, when the Metro Detroit average sat at $4.8677,

DETROIT, Mich. — Kevin Adell, the metro Detroit owner of The Word Network and other broadcast properties, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection little more than a week after a federal jury in Detroit ordered him to pay $62.2 million in a race discrimination case. The voluntary petition, case 2:26-bk-02722, was filed Oct. 23

DETROIT, Mich. — The $2.2 billion plan from Bedrock and General Motors to remake the Renaissance Center and the riverfront around it is now in front of the Detroit City Council, and if it clears every step it would become only the fourth Transformational Brownfield deal in the city. The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved

DETROIT, Mich. — Roughly 100 shoppers stood outside the downtown Detroit Apple Store, on Woodward Avenue, on Friday morning as the iPhone Duo, the first iPhone that folds, went on sale. Some had settled in the evening before. Early arrivals showed up Thursday afternoon and stayed through the night with chairs, blankets and sleeping bags,

DETROIT, Mich. — Auto parts supplier Dakkota Integrated Systems is shutting down its Detroit factory in two steps, a move that will eliminate 397 jobs after the company lost its contracts for instrument panels on two Stellantis SUVs. Those dashboards go into Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee models assembled close by at the Detroit

DETROIT, Mich. — Dan Gilbert will put $1 billion he does not expect back into a new nonprofit that would take over, rebuild and run the Renaissance Center and roughly 35 acres of Detroit's east riverfront, officials said Monday. Under the new setup, the nonprofit rather than General Motors or Bedrock would hold the renovated

DETROIT, Mich. — Downtown office workers get a bagel counter back on Monday, Oct. 19, as the Einstein Bros. brand starts serving from the ground-floor lobby at One Campus Martius, its first spot anywhere in downtown Detroit. The walk-up shop takes about 1,200 square feet on the tower's first floor beside True Market, in space

DETROIT, Mich. — A new Chick-fil-A on the north edge of Detroit is staffing up. The restaurant, named Chick-fil-A 8 Mile & Woodward, plans to bring on about 100 full- and part-time workers before it opens this fall. The store sits at 1201 W. Eight Mile Road. The chain has not set an opening day,