Home Authors Posts by Izzi Bendall

Izzi Bendall

538 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

Chevrolet Begins Shipping 2014 Corvette Stingray

Chevrolet announced Wednesday it has begun shipping the 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe to dealers. The automaker has produced approximately 1,000 Stingrays at its Bowling Green, Ky., assembly plant and the famed sports car will...

New Consumer Energy Policy Expected to Benefit Businesses

An estimated 600 Michigan businesses are expected to benefit annually from a new policy established by Consumers Energy in Jackson. Before the new policy, customers would pay a deposit for providing electric infrastructure —...

$10M Donation to Fund Detroit Zoo’s New Penguin Center

The Detroit Zoo announced Wednesday a $10 million donation — the largest in the zoo's history — from the Stephen Polk Fund in Bloomfield Hills, that will be used to create the $21-million Polk...

Detroit Developers Have their Eyes on Google Glass

Since its first official introduction in April 2012, Google Glass — eyeglasses with the functionality of a smartphone — has yet to be released to the public, however several Detroit developers have already been...

App for Cancer Patients Among Top Downloads

The first smartphone app specifically developed for cancer surgery patients in the United States and released earlier this summer by the Center for Cancer Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital is gaining attention with nearly...

Schostak Plans $111M, 16-story Office Building in Detroit

What is currently a parking lot along Monroe Street may have a future as a $111-million, 16-story office building for Livonia-based Schostak Bros. & Co. The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, which has reviewed the...

August Home Prices Jump 55 Percent in Metro Detroit

The average price for a single-family home or condominium sold in metro Detroit rose to $135,000 in August — a 55.2-percent increase — when compared with August 2012, while sales for the same period...

Economist: State Businesses to Face Slow Growth

Interest rates and labor costs favor American companies today, but headwinds from federal programs like Obamacare along with rising regulations will slow business growth, says a national economist set to speak in metro Detroit...

Tech-Training Institute to Open in Broderick Tower

With a goal of fulfilling the ever growing need for technical professionals in downtown Detroit, Grand Circus — a tech-training institute located on three floors of the Broderick Tower — will open Friday with...

First Commercially Available Cyclotron Comes to Michigan

Designed to accelerate electrons and other particles, the world’s first commercially available cyclotron connected to animal facilities will take up residence at MPI Research in Mattawan, just west of Kalamazoo. Set to open in...

NEWSLETTERS

FOLLOW US

4,462FansLike
1,305FollowersFollow
19,399FollowersFollow

FROM OUR PARTNERS