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Transportation agencies and industry contractors struggle to find highway construction workers at all skill levels. State departments of transportation (DOTs) are turning to nontraditional recruitment programs, such as those designed [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Mario Kiezi has taken his long-standing concerns about the Lakeside Mall redevelopment in Sterling Heights to court in an effort that could halt the mall's demolition. Kiezi, [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A Detroit City Council member's request could complicate the effort to tear down a portion of the Renaissance Center and redevelop it. Angela Whitfield Calloway has sponsored [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho The redevelopment of the former Kmart Corp. headquarters site could take a step forward next month. The proposal in Troy to turn the 40-acre site into a [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A new parking deck with close to 700 spaces is planned as part of Detroit City FC's proposal for a new soccer stadium in southwest Detroit. That [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Mike Kozak, president andpartner of the engineering firm Giffels Webster, has been in the field for more than 20 years, rising to his current role in 2023. [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho New year, new owner, new plan. The former Dearborn Hyatt Regency's new ownership has a vision to turn the 18-story tower nestled between the city's two downtown [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Southland Center in Taylor officially has a new owner. The downriver shopping mall at 23000 Eureka Road near Racho Boulevard sold in late December for close to [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Jonathan Holtzman isn't a religious person in any sort of traditional sense, but he does believe in God, the natural world -- and capitalism. Deep to his [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A largely vacant office tower that's part of the Renaissance Center complex on Detroit's riverfront is heading to auction. The 334,000-square-foot 600 Tower -- the downtown complex's [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho The buck hoist has been removed from the Hudson's Detroit skyscraper, another step toward completing the 685-foot tower. 'Buck hoist,' you may ask. (More like a WTH [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho There's another proposal to build new housing along Detroit's Avenue of Fashion. A joint venture between Warren-based builder Brown Schroeder & Co. and Shelby Township-based BmK Design+Planning [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Fairlane Town Center, less than two years into its new ownership, has avoided receivership. A Wayne County Circuit Court judge on Jan. 8 denied a lender's request [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A New Jersey father and son each received federal prison sentences for their role in a commercial mortgage fraud tied to a large property in Troy. Aron [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho As Detroit was mired in its unprecedented municipal bankruptcy more than a decade ago, behind-the-scenes negotiators enlisted what at the time was Dan Gilbert's increasingly influential real [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho As Southeast Michigan's remaining shopping malls emerge from a roller-coaster year, some have started to reimagine themselves -- while others will continue to face challenges. As Americans [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho When Danielle Wright and her boyfriend Joe Jackson began searching for their first home together early last year, they looked in areas near her Clawson apartment. The [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Communities across Southeast Michigan, and particularly Detroit's inner-ring suburbs, are facing a challenge that may go unnoticed to the broader public. City, township and village halls in [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Detroit's outgoing planning director is departing to co-lead a prominent architecture and design firm in Detroit. Antoine Bryant's first day as co-managing director of Gensler's Detroit office [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A beloved west Oakland County family entertainment destination is leaving its longtime Farmington Hills home. Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum is relocating to the Orchard Mall shopping center [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Reservations from some Lansing lawmakers about state funding for a redevelopment of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit aren't fazing its primary owner, General Motors Co. David [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Another metro Detroit shopping mall is expected to trade hands soon. The sale of Southland Center in Taylor to an unknown buyer is expected to close by [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Mark Woods, COO of Signature Associates Inc., has spent more than three decades in commercial real estate, an industry known for being a rat race. He's worked [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Yes, General Motors Co. and Dan Gilbert's Bedrock LLC real estate company plan to tear down the 300 and 400 towers of the Renaissance Center in Detroit. [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho One of Peter Cummings' signature development projects in Detroit is now on the market; the latest in a string of properties the prominent developer is looking to [...]

Byline: David Eggert, Kirk Pinho and Kurt Nagl General Motors Co. and Bedrock LLC's $1.6 billion plan to partially tear down the iconic Renaissance Center, modernize it and ease public [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Detroit leapfrogged a lot of cities in a recent survey of real estate professionals nationwide on things like its investment potential and development opportunities. Of course, it's [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho The planned new Detroit City Football Club soccer stadium in southwest Detroit presents revenue-generating opportunities not afforded the team at its current Keyworth Stadium home in Hamtramck. [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho, David Eggert And Amy Barczy With Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's Nov. 13 announcement that he will not be seeking reelection for a fourth term, eyes now turn [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Let's file this in the 'I'm 99.999999% Certain This is Never Gonna Happen' category -- but still. Zoning rule changes under consideration for the closed Lakeside Mall [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A planned Amazon Fresh location in metro Detroit will finally start selling groceries soon. But it definitely won't be Amazon Fresh selling them. Kim Nhung Superfood Inc., [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho and David Eggert When Mike Duggan mounted an improbable write-in campaign in 2013 to become Detroit's next mayor, the city was in the throes of the largest [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Now that the presidential election is over, a Lansing-based general contractor has work to do. Christman Co. is, for the fifth consecutive presidential election, responsible for building [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho I have a special place in my heart for Pontiac, a city I called home from 2011-20. People have been talking for decades about how to improve [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Oakland County officials are in the midst of brokering a deal with a pair of major real estate companies to redevelop the southern part of downtown Pontiac [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A scaled-back proposal for a long-stalled development in Midtown calls for construction to start in early January. A public presentation from the development team behind The Mid [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho To paraphrase Charli XCX, I think that Apple's coming right to the core. And if I'm right, it's probably not that far off. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho What was once Detroit's tallest building is up for sale. The Ford Building, located at 615 Griswold St. at West Congress Street, does not have a disclosed [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Jax Kar Wash has purchased another car wash company. The Southfield-based chain, which has been expanding following its own 2022 acquisition by private equity, bought Chesterfield Township-based [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A fixture of the Detroit skyline is no longer. No, not that one. The tower crane at the Hudson's Detroit development on Woodward Avenue was removed over [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A coworking space giant is opening seven more new locations in Michigan in the next year or so. As Switzerland-based IWG plc -- IWG stands for International [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Sam Munaco has been a staple in the commercial real estate brokerage industry for decades, primarily representing tenants in lease negotiations with landlords. He is president of [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Michaela Habte and Derek Harris weren't strangers to Detroit when they arrived this summer on Wayne State University's campus. The college seniors weren't Warriors, however, even though [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho The city of Detroit is mulling moving a chunk of its employees into the Renaissance Center, Crain's has learned. Multiple sources familiar with the matter said that [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Rachel Nelson, 38 CEO and Principal Designer Concetti LLC Even before she knew what to call it, Rachel Nelson had a penchant for interior design. The co-founder [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Gino Roncelli, 35 CEO, Roncelli Inc. The Roncelli family's construction company is growing revenue and expanding its payroll under new leadership -- but not without some difficult [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Detroit's two daily newspapers are looking for a new home. On Oct. 10, the state's largest daily newspaper, the Detroit Free Press, said it was being forced [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Andrea Daniewski, 37 Vice President of Operations, Bedrock LLC Andrea Daniewski is a people person. So much so that she pulled a professional 180, shifting from doing [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Brandon Booth, 39 Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer For Brandon Booth, his love affair with building started with Legos, as it did for so many. [...]