One of the nation's largest hardware incubators is working to bring ideas to life, and in metro Detroit, where engineers and entrepreneurs abound, big ideas are in plentiful supply.
Demand has never been greater at the Centropolis Accelerator, said Dan Radomski, executive director of the…
by Alan Stamm It s kind of custom to our culture, says the owner of Armando s, site of these first lantern-style dining chalets. (Photo: Southwest Detroit Business Association) These stylish workarounds for dining in a time of Covid are likely to outlast the pandemic, and not just because prices start at $6,000 each. They re also cozy, romantic and culturally apt for Southwest Detroit, the first area getting locally made restaurant luminarias. The steel huts with plexiglass windows and roofs are 12-foot-tall versions of paper lanterns that line walkways, churches, and homes around Christmas in Mexican culture. Fifteen are being erected outside eateries in Mexicantown and nearby, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Hudson Webber Foundation.