Business & Development

Published March 19, 2019

New broker hired to represent former incinerator property

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — After a year and a half of marketing hasn’t produced any buyers, officials with the Grosse Pointes-Clinton Refuse Disposal Authority are switching to a new real estate broker for their long-vacant incinerator property in Clinton Township.

Published March 19, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Neighborhood party store getting new home

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — A landmark local business is moving — but not far. Jerry’s Club Party Store, at 381 Kercheval Ave., will be relocating to 383 Kercheval, the building next door. As Robert Ertzbischoff, of Grosse Pointe Construction, which is undertaking renovations on the new location, pointed out, it’s only 1 foot — and one wall — away from the current space.

Published March 19, 2019

Advertiser Times

Boy Scouts program aims to help young people, businesses

DETROIT — The Boy Scouts of America is putting out a call for local businesses to help prepare young people for the workforce.

Published March 18, 2019

Woodward Talk

Final skate park design presented to City Council

FERNDALE — One month after the city of Ferndale selected Geary Park as the location for its skate park, it also has finalized the design of the skate park.

Published March 18, 2019

Shelby - Utica News

Utica to sell Riverside 175 senior housing

UTICA — The city of Utica decided to sell its Riverside 175 senior housing complex at the March 12 City Council meeting, and the building will be put up for bids.

Published March 15, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

TIFA to finance bathhouse renovation

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Members of the Tax Increment Finance Authority, or TIFA, voted March 12 to award a $1.2 million contract to renovate the bathhouse at Blossom Heath Park to Rick Fromm Co. LLC.

Published March 15, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

The Lake House merges with Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Nearly eight years after opening its doors to those living with cancer on the east side, The Lake House will keep its mission — but get a new name, as it merges with Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit.

Published March 15, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Mission to help homeless comes to St. Clair Shores Senior Activity Center

ST. CLAIR SHORES — It’s something one might expect to see at a senior center — dozens of people sitting around, crocheting.

A sign marks a vacant area along 17 Mile Road, near Van Dyke Avenue. Sterling Heights approved a planned unit development proposal to build three hotels on the property at a March 5 City Council meeting.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Council approves trio of hotels near Van Dyke corridor

It might break the rules in Monopoly, but the Sterling Heights City Council successfully approved a plan to put three hotels on a stretch of property along 17 Mile Road, near Van Dyke Avenue.

Published March 15, 2019

Warren Weekly

ReStore looks to relocate its south Warren location

WARREN — Macomb County Habitat for Humanity does a good deal of business by giving the public good deals on donated home furnishings and building materials at its ReStore location on Van Dyke Avenue, just north of Nine Mile Road.

Published March 15, 2019

Warren Weekly

Allegiant Nonstop family entertainment center nears completion

WARREN — Video games. Virtual reality simulators. Electric go-karts. Multilevel “zombie apocalypse” laser tag. Ten lanes of bowling. Black light miniature golf. A climbing wall. Bumper cars. Build-your-own pizzas.

Published March 13, 2019

Rochester Post

Mad Money March returns to downtown Rochester

ROCHESTER — Those who shop or dine in downtown Rochester this March will have a chance to start spring off with shopping sprees of up to $1,000. The Rochester Downtown Development Authority is hosting its sixth annual Mad Money March event, which DDA Events Coordinator Jenna O’Dell said is an incentive to spend dollars in downtown Rochester to be entered in a drawing for a chance to win shopping sprees of $1,000, $500 or $250 at participating businesses.

Published March 12, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Board approves renovation plan for Maple Theater

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans to renovate the Maple Theater late last month, along with an amendment to the theater’s liquor license agreement to reflect those changes.

Published March 12, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Kenning Park ballfields to get makeover

BIRMINGHAM — June is expected to bring more than just the first day of summer this year — it will also bring the official game of summer. Birmingham city officials plan to redevelop two of the four existing baseball fields at Kenning Park, on Lincoln Street, the site of Birmingham Little League baseball.

Published March 12, 2019

Shelby - Utica News

Utica DDA to sell downtown property to General Sports Entertainment

UTICA — The Utica Downtown Development Authority is in the process of selling a parcel of land located next to the Clinton River in downtown Utica and across the street from Memorial Park on Auburn Road.

The Ferndale City Council approved another set of bids for construction of “The dot” in the amount of more than $4.1 million, including $714,250 that will go to a Ferndale company, Madison Heights Glass.

Published March 12, 2019

Woodward Talk

Ferndale business among many bids approved for ‘dot’ construction

FERNDALE — The Ferndale City Council approved its third set of bids for construction related to the development on Troy, a mixed-use parking structure project known as “The dot.”

Two Men and a Truck employees Dave Dodge, left, and Drake Bates-Gasior pick up MCREST materials from St. Lucy Catholic Church in St. Clair Shores March 3. The two organizations have partnered for 30 years.

Published March 12, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

‘We have to take care of each other’

MACOMB COUNTY — The partnership between two organizations helping those in need locally has reached 30 years.

Two Men and a Truck and Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team, or MCREST, first teamed up in the late-1980s.

Published March 11, 2019

Shelby - Utica News

Utica considering selling city buildings, moving to new location

UTICA — The city of Utica is considering making a change to the location of its city buildings and selling the present sites of those buildings. The proposed location that the city is looking at to relocate its buildings is the old packing plant on the north end of Pioneer Park, off Cass Avenue, across from Ruby Street. The entrance would be located off Cass Avenue.

Published March 8, 2019

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Foreclosed home to be rehabilitated by St. Clair Shores

ST. CLAIR SHORES — A house acquired by the city of St. Clair Shores as a result of the 2018 Tax Foreclosure Program on Englehardt Street will be rehabilitated by Metro Trades for $74,925.

Published March 8, 2019

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Fifth installment in sculpture program eyed for this fall

HARRISON TOWNSHIP — Erik and Israel Nordin, of the Detroit Design Center, are back in town, and they have a clear idea of what, and where, the next installment in the Harrison Township Beautification Commission’s sculpture program will be.