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Second wave of District Detroit projects won’t start until next year Roughly two years after the Ilitch family and developer Stephen Ross announced a $1.53 billion vision for a kick-started District Detroit area, there’s still in some cases at least a year to go until construction begins on the first of those 10 proposed projects. The…

Conversion of vacant historic Detroit school into housing begins The conversion of a former school in northwest Detroit into affordable housing is underway. A ceremonial groundbreaking took place Tuesday for the redevelopment of the old William E. Higginbotham School near Eight Mile and Wyoming roads into 100 apartments set to be offered at below-market rates…

Tax ‘loophole’ for big-box stores might be closed by Legislature LANSING — For eight-plus years, local government and school interest groups have unsuccessfully lobbied state lawmakers to stop the ability of big-box stores to cut their property taxes by contending that real estate should be compared to “dark,” or vacant, structures. Now they are making…

Michigan’s economy will hold steady amid Trump’s immigration and tariff policies, experts say Michigan’s economy is slowing down and an uncertain economic future has returned as President-elect Donald Trump’s administration prepares for its second opportunity in Washington, D.C.  But economists at the University of Michigan predict the state’s economy, while negatively impacted by planned tariffs and…