What? Every other top read story in Crain's Detroit Business most read 2016 stories is significant for being big or catchy and widely known. It makes me wonder if the story was deliberately hit by a botnet as part of a marketing ploy/scam. How otherwise can such an obscure event be the top read story?

Here are the 10 most-read stories on crainsdetroit.com in 2016:

  1. Michigan's first Escape the Room opens in downtown Detroit
  2. Opinion: Buck stops with Snyder, but here's whom to really blame in Flint water crisis
  3. Stroh's to be 'proudly brewed in Detroit' again: Brew Detroit gets approval for label
  4. Amazon to open $90 million warehouse in Livonia, hire 1,000 people
  5. Beaumont Health to demolish Royal Oak shopping center beginning in July
  6. Drew Sharp, Matt Dery out at Detroit sports station WMGC 105.1 FM
  7. GM to launch large-scale renovation of Renaissance Center
  8. Sources: Pistons move could be announced within days
  9. Detroit News offers buyouts to all editorial employees
  10. Nearly all local Max & Erma's restaurants close suddenly

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