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From Crain's Detroit Business: There has been pushback against the tax break, the framework for which was set in 2017. Some residents and council members have questioned why Gilbert, worth some $17 billion or more, should receive the incentive.

Urban planner and tour guide Michael Boettcher is leading walking tours this Pride Month and beyond with Detroit History Tours that take visitors through decades of LGBTQ history in downtown Detroit. The timeline of the tour begins in 1846, when Michigan codified its anti-sodomy laws, and leads…

The Detroit City Council has again delayed a vote on whether the city should give another $60.3 million in tax breaks for Dan Gilbert's project on the site of the former J.L. Hudson's department store.

Last summer, state lawmakers threw a lifeline to the team behind a long-delayed major Midtown development proposal just days after the city hit it with tickets for serious blight violations.

The postponement comes after city residents voiced their opposition to the 10-year abatement plan for the downtown property, saying the city needs to use that money to fund schools and libraries.

Dan Gilbert's Detroit-based real estate company now says the development, which has been hampered by redesigns and construction setbacks, is expected to cost $991 million, about a 9 percent increase from the most recent publicly revealed price tag of $909 million.

The 30,000-square-foot former community center property on the same block between State Street and Grand River Avenue as the under-renovation Book Building and Book Tower could have a new fate: First-floor retail and second-floor office, with the potential for a rooftop deck and penthouse.

Detroit has a new rooftop tree. Go by Dan Gilbert's development on the former J.L. Hudson's department store site, look up and you'll see a tree perched atop steel beams for the under-construction skyscraper downtown. That is what's known in the construction industry as a "topping out tree," part…

Dan Gilbert's skyscraper on the site of the former J.L. Hudson's department store downtown is getting an Edition hotel.

If you’ve been downtown recently, you’ve probably noticed that progress is being made on Dan Gilbert’s new tower, a project that was to build what...