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The Royal Oak decks offer 2 hours of free parking before 5 p.m. and flat rates thereafter.

With respect to raising parking rates, they are time dependent but generally went up from $1 an hour to...

Yes, they are expanding the 600 S. Main project. Here's the updated version. To me, this evidences the strong demand for such developments in Royal Oak. With all of these new developments coming...

More new or expanded developments announced/likely [[more in the wings):

1) Major redevelopment of the 696/Woodward Parcel to housing/mixed use....

Yes, the Hyatt is under construction right now.
The major civic center development and downtown park begins later this month or next month.

The article leaves out a lot of other downtown or near...

I'm of the view that we are strong working together as a metropolitan region and celebrating each other's successes. Just like I think Oakland County benefits from a strong city center and should...

It seems Royal Oak is working hard to create a balanced downtown between residential, shopping, restaurants/bars and office space. Increased office space will help bolster daytime foot traffic and...

Interesting read. And particularly interesting in light of the many articles in recent years predicting exactly the opposite, that there would be a migration toward city centers in America and away...

For the record, between 2010 and 2015, per the U.S. Census Bureau, Royal Oak's population grew, albeit slightly. So it's not true that the city is losing population. Of course, Royal Oak is...

Perhaps my wife and I are just a myth – college-educated young professionals who chose Detroit for the opportunities it offers and an authenticity unlike any place the world over. But now, as I...

These kids acted like animals. Disgusting.

It''s truly unbelievable that a candidate for city council could write so poorly.

It's funny to see many of the typical responses... Person 1: Unions are evil and always destroy things.... Person 2: Unions are always good, etc.

Can't we just be real and acknowledge that...

Ahhh yes, I see the track dropped in 2008.

This is a new song by a Canadian artist named Sam Roberts. It's called Detroit '67 and the music video looks to be entirely shot in the city. Thought people might enjoy this.

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Yes but how can the Illitchs do all this work without any sort of city permit and without any accountability to the public? This is a public place in the downtown of a major city. If the DEGC is...

I don't get how work is being done without any city permit and any accountability. This seems very fishy. Usually politicians jump to announce new buildings years before ground is broken and even...

It's not that there is no benefit to having the jobs in Livonia but that there is more benefit to having a major corporation HQ'd downtown. Quicken does more for the region being headquartered...

Exactly. And that's why in the long-run, these incentives might not be such a bad thing. At least they are contributing to building a viable urban center in the state [[a goal that was not advanced by...

OK. No one likes incentives but I'm surprised these aren't the type of incentives people at DYes would actually agree with. I say that because this is the State of Michigan finally recognizing that a...

The problem is that council members will fight for the health of their district regardless of whether that's in the best interests of the city as a whole. Take for example regionalism [[or the lack...

Is this new business or just the Navy extending its contract with CE? In other words, was the Navy already a client of CE?

That's not necessarily true. Ferndale and Royal Oak are both very walkable neighborhoods with lots of young professionals. If you like Ann Arbor you should look at both of those places. Both are...

Yes, Grosse Pointe is more of a traditional, "urban" suburb. It's somewhat of a model suburb if you are a new urbanist and believe in pedestrian friendly, walkable neighborhoods not defined by large...

The problem isn't that each council person has one vote. The problem is that your vote counts less if you live in a district where 50,000 people elect a council person versus someone who lives in a...

Great posts on rightsizing. Although, my original question was more related to council by district and how this will impact attempts to rightsize the city. How would the districts be created in...