Tim Keenan
Tim Keenan is managing editor of DBusiness magazine, DBusiness Daily News, Tech and Mobility News, Detroit 500, and Michigan Makers. Prior to joining DBusiness, he was a senior account executive at Campbell Marketing & Communications in Dearborn, working with the Motorcraft-Quick Lane racing teams in NASCAR and the NHRA. In other positions, he executed public relations and marketing strategies for several Tier One automotive suppliers. His journalism credits include The Football News-Basketball Weekly in Detroit, The Hardwood News in Lansing, Monday Morning Newspapers in Warren, and Ward’s Communications in Southfield. While at Ward’s, Mr. Keenan was part of a team that won the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award in 1995. In late 2020, he published “Everybody Loves Mickey,” a biography of retired professional wrestler “Irish” Mickey Doyle. Mr. Keenan also is chairman of the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo and is a volunteer for the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona Beach, Fla. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
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For the first time, the Motown Museum in Detroit released a flyover video of its vision for what its campus will look like when its $50 million expansion is complete.Ground was broken in September...
TechTown Detroit Launches Incubator Program for Entrepreneurs
TechTown, an entrepreneurship hub in Detroit’s Midtown district, is starting a new incubator program for area technology-based startup businesses.The intensive, 30-week business development experience is designed to help tech company founders fortify their businesses into...
Farmington Hills’ Beringea Leads $5M Investment Round in Traverse City’s Atlas Space Operations
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Askar Brands’ Southeast Enterprise Holdings Finalizes Acquisition of 47 Dunkin’ Franchises in South Florida
Southeast Enterprise Holdings Inc., owned by Commerce Township’s Askar Brands Chairman and Founder Casey Askar, has announced the acquisition of 47 Dunkin’ restaurants in south Florida.The stores in the Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West...
Roxbury Group, Marriott to Open $46M AC Hotel Next to Bonstelle Theatre in Detroit
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Plymouth Growth Partners Leads $7 Million Series B Funding for Ohio Employment Software Co.
Ann Arbor venture capital firm Plymouth Growth Partners has led a $7 million Series B funding round for Cleveland-based EmployStream, a provider of onboarding automation to the staffing industry.Other participants in the funding round...
City of Detroit Sues Three Owners Who Combined Control 1K-plus Blighted Properties
The City of Detroit’s law department has filed complaints in Wayne County’s 3rd Circuit Court against three owners who combined control an estimated 1,000-plus blighted properties.Steve and Stephen Hagerman of West Bloomfield Township, Michael...
World’s First In-vehicle Curved Lighted Display Debuts in 2021 Cadillac Escalade
The newly unveiled 2021 Cadillac Escalade features plastic organic light-emitting diode (P-OLED) technology from LG Electronics in Troy, marking the first-ever use of a curved OLED display in a production vehicle.The P-OLED display is...
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