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Boutique hotel developers want to take travelers outside – and into – the box

May 2, 2014

Plans are shaping up for three or four new boutique hotels in the city of Detroit, and the project developers are betting on visitors’ interest in non-cookie-cutter accommodations. While hotel experts say the city doesn’t technically need the hotels to […]

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HopCat Chooses Midtown, Scores the Old Agave Building

Mystery Solved: HopCat Detroit is headed for Midtown. More specifically, the Agave Building, which has been vacant since 2006. Being one of the country’s largest (and best) beer bars, HopCat will renovate the Agave to include an outdoor beer garden and a live […]

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Garden Theater: Former Ruin Gets Well-Deserved Restoration

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor years of pornography managed to destroy the Garden Theater in Midtown. It hung on just long enough to find an investor, reopening in October as Detroit’s latest win in architectural preservation. Built in 1912 as […]

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