For historical purposes, below are links to the previous new year prediction threads:

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017

And here we go:

  1. Amazon surprises all of us and selects Detroit to host HQ2.
  2. [[Since I failed on this the past two years) Eastland closes.
  3. Pistons finish their first season in the LCA with a playoff appearance, but get eliminated in the first round; Red Wings in their first LCA season barely falter out of the playoff picture.
  4. With Caldwell driven out of town on a rail, the Lions improve on their 2017 record but barely make the wild-card.
  5. Tigers once again fail to make the playoffs for the fourth straight season, the biggest highlight being the longest losing streak in baseball history.
  6. Detroit lands an MLS expansion team to begin play by 2020.
  7. DDOT announces their own Fast lines along Jefferson to Jefferson-Chalmers, Grand River to Farmington and Fort Street to Trenton. SMART launches additional Fast lines along Telegraph and 12 Mile.
  8. Preliminary works begin to demolish the fairgrounds for the long-anticipated retail development planned for that location.
  9. The RTA slimly manages to place a rewritten Master Plan on August ballots, where it surprisingly passes even with the presence of SMART's own millage on those same ballots.
  10. Michigan's new governor makes promises on plans to repair damage to Flint done by the water crisis.



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