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Dan Gilbert's PAC cash gifts to Detroit council emerge as RenCen vote looms
DETROIT — As the Detroit City Council begins to take up a massive $2.2 billion plan to overhaul the General Motors Renaissance Center, five of the nine council members who are considering approving key parts of the complex deal have accepted campaign donations from the political action committee formed by billionaire Dan Gilbert's company or the CEO of Gilbert's Bedrock real estate development firm. The donations from the Rock Holdings State Inc. PAC — a state-level political action committee associated with Rock Holdings, the parent company of Rocket Mortgage and related entities founded by Gilbert — and Bedrock CEO Jared Fleisher for 2024 to today amount to a total of $27,950, according to public campaign finance records. These contributions represent steady support for council members, past and present, as well as council candidates, from the influential development group that controls major portions of downtown Detroit. Another $28,500 was given to three other candidates who lost their bids to get on the council during the 2025 election, records show. The Detroit News reviewed campaign finance records dating back to 2021. The council members who received cash from the Rock Holdings State Inc. PAC were Councilman Coleman A. Young II, who got
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Opinion: We should delay GM, Bedrock’s plans for Detroit’s Riverfront
I am one of two elected members of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee (NAC), tasked with negotiating the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the Renaissance Center and RiverEast project. I was also the sole no vote against the presented CBA for many reasons. While I could critique the many issues with...
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Motown Museum Brings Hitsville Tours Back Before Its 2027 Expansion
Motown Museum is reopening the little Detroit house that helped change American music before its much larger expansion opens. Public tours of Hitsville U.S.A. resume December 17, according to the museum’s reopening announcement. Visitors have been unable to take the house tour since January while preservation work and construction...
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Husband-Wife Duo Opens Detroit's First Black-Owned Beyond Juicery on Livernois
A husband-and-wife team is bringing Detroit's first Black-owned Beyond Juicery + Eatery to the University District, with the new shop set to open to the public on November 21 at 11 a.m. at 17149 Livernois Avenue. John and Allyson Smith will mark the occasion with an invitation-only media preview, smoothie social and ribbon-cutting the day before, on November 20 at noon, featuring Mayor Mary Sheffield.
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This Michigan Filipino Bakery Makes Ube Brownies And Fresh Pandesal
The brownies here are naturally purple. That color comes from ube, a Filipino purple yam with a mellow, nutty sweetness. The ube doesn’t stop at brownies, either. It shows up in cookies, cheesecake Danish, rolls, and even a flaky kouign amann. Meanwhile, soft pandesal rolls wait nearby, slightly sweeter than a regular dinner roll.