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Feds could sell 3 downtown Detroit properties Three properties in downtown Detroit have landed on a new U.S. General Services Administration list of federally owned real estate that could be sold in the future. The list includes 443 “non-core” properties across 47 states that the GSA posted on its website Tuesday and are a part of President…

RenCen plan adds observation deck, cuts taxpayer costs by up to $100M The $1.6 billion Renaissance Center redevelopment plan by two of Detroit’s most prominent companies would include a new Willis Tower-like observation deck — and the project would likely cost taxpayers far less than initially pitched, an official said Thursday. The GM-Bedrock effort to demolish…

AI is coming to work. Here’s where white-collar labor will be disrupted the most. White-collar jobs are most at risk of being impacted by ChatGPT and generative AI, unlike previous automation technologies that primarily affected routine, blue-collar work.  In Michigan, metro Detroit and the counties home to the state’s biggest universities will see the highest…

Jocelyn Benson aims to make housing, education centerpieces of governor campaign LANSING — Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said her track record proves that, as Michigan governor, she could improve government operations and tackle problems like housing affordability, a lagging K-12 education system and too many people not earning a living wage. Benson announced her campaign in…