A part of the Battle Creek city water system has been shut down for repairs, and customers in the affected area are advised to boil the water before using it for human consumption. That includes drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation.
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A partner in a company that plans to open at least three Dunkin’ Donuts shops in the Kalamazoo/Portage area says he is still looking for a location for the first doughnut shop.
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There are tons of Michigan holiday spots worth visiting. One such spot is the Pictured Rocks Area. Located in the higher Peninsula near Munising, this breathtaking state lakeshore is definitely one of the most excellent Michigan holiday spots. The Pictured Rocks Area is named for the impressive hilly coast that stretches for miles and miles, impressive sandstone cliffs and other unique rock formations. It is one of the most picturesque Michigan vacation spots. Visitors will be astonished by the dazzling rock formations like arches, caves, spires, human and animal profile and castle turrets-like
Formations, naturally chiseled fundamentally itself. Visitors describe this vaction spot as surprisingly surreal.
There are several ways to explore the majestic beauty of the Pictured Rocks Area. One of the best paths to enjoy and explore this spot and the rest of the encompassing area is by boat tour or cruise. While relaxing on a boat, you can take a fully-narrated scenic route, you can view the superb rock formations and luxuriate in the impressive views of beaches, bays, caves, falls, and lighthouses along the shoreline. For a closer encounter, you may also explore the vast pristine beaches or the north hardwood forest on foot.
The Pictured Rocks Area is composed of impressive eye candies which makes it one of the most actually attractive Michigan holiday spots. An instance of these spots is the Bridalveil Falls, the name comes from 140 feet waterfall like a dainty veil of a bride, another is the Spray Falls, the base cradles the “Superior,” an 1856 shipwreck.
Another popular Michigan holiday spot in Pictured Rocks is The Lovers jump. A great way to tour this site is on board one of the glass bottomed boats available in Munising. As you float away on one of the tours, the captain or the crew is always more than happy to share the romantic tale behind the rock formation. Indian Head, a rock formation that seems like an old Indian watching over Lake Superior is another point of interest, too.
If you are planning a vacation and making a list of Michigan vacation spots, the Pictured Rocks area should definitely be on top of your list. Like many other Michigan vacations spots, this postcard-worthy place is more than a dramatic spot. As one of the most well liked Michigan vacation spots, it doesn’t displease tourists, when it comes to offering sufficient possibilities for camping, hiking, kayaking and other 4 season outdoor activities.
Excerpt from: Visit Pictured Rocks Area On Your Michigan Trip
Market overview
Tourists can ride in a Model T in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, a National Historic Landmark.
The metropolitan region’s tourism industry depends on drawing large crowds to positively impact the local economy. As the world’s traditional automotive center, the city hosts the annual North American International Auto Show in January, a multi-day event. Other major multi-day events which reflect the region’s culture such as the Motown Winter Blast and the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival can draw super sized-crowds of hundreds of thousands to over three million people. In 2006, the four-day Motown Winter Blast drew a cold weather crowd of about 1.2 million people to Campus Martius Park area downtown. Metro Detroit is one of thirteen U.S. cities with teams from four major sports.
Besides casino gaming, the region’s leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America’s largest indoor-outdoor museum complex, a museum entertainment complex with an IMAX theater next to the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn. The Detroit Institute of Arts in the cultural center downtown is another leading attraction. The Detroit Festival of the Arts in Midtown draws about 350,000 people. The Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak has the nation’s largest polar bear exhibit, the Arctic Ring of Wildlife. The zoo has a train which encircles the park. Together, The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Zoo attract about 2,500,000 visitors annually.
Greektown in Detroit
Another automotive attraction cataloging the history of the industry is the Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills. Historic tours of the mansions of the auto barons such as Meadowbrook Hall in Rochester Hills, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Henry Ford’s Fair Lane Estate in Dearborn, and the Lawrence Fisher Mansion in Detroit are available.
The city’s Greektown is a busy entertainment district. The city has evolved into a center for the major casino resorts – MGM Grand Detroit, Motor City Casino, Greektown Casino, and Caesars Windsor just across the river in Canada. The metropolitan region’s potential to attract super-sized crowds should not be underestimated. Just across the river, Caesars Windsor attracts about six million visitors annually. More than fifteen million people cross the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel annually. An estimated 46 million people live within a 300 mile (480 km) radius of Metro Detroit. Since 2000, the city has seen continuous annual increases in tax revenues from its casinos; the city collected and estimated $178,250,000 in casino taxes alone for 2007, with the casino resorts open in 2008. The Detroit International Riverfront hosts an events including the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival in late June with one of the nation’s largest displays of fireworks and the Electronic Music Festival on Memorial Day weekend. The New York Times listed Detroit among its 53 world travel destinations for 2008.
Movie studios in the metro area help establish the state as a legitimate contender in the 12-month-a-year film business. Detroit Center Studios (2009) will debut at the downtown building which was the start-up casino for MGM Grand to create digital animation and visual effects. Motown Motion Picture Studios (2009) with 600,000 square feet will produce movies at the Pontiac Centerpoint Business Campus for a film industry expected to employ over 4,000 people in the metro area.
Hospitality infrastructure
Cruise ships, hotels, and resorts
Detroit Princess Riverboat charter hosts regularly scheduled public cruises.
MGM Grand Detroit.
The Dock of Detroit on Hart Plaza near the Renaissance Center receives major cruise ships and tall ships. The Great Lakes Cruising Coalition supports passenger ship cruises through a joint U.S-Canadian venture to Great Lakes Ports and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor in downtown Detroit offers public docks for boaters.
Besides its casino resorts, the Detroit area has tens of thousands of hotel rooms. The city’s hospitality industry has hosted many major conventions as well as sporting events. The Marriott corporation and Starwood Hotels (Westin and Sheraton) have a significant presence in the region. The area has many luxury hotels and resorts including the historic Westin Book Cadillac Hotel which was restored in 2008. Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center and the Omni Detroit Hotel at Riverplace have waterfront views. An example of investment in the city’s historic downtown area is the restored Inn at Ferry Street, a collection of Victorian bed and breakfasts in the cultural district near the Detroit Institute of Arts. Downtown Detroit has about 5,000 hotel rooms, with 4,000 in walking distance of its Cobo Hall convention center. The suburb of Novi has about 5,300 hotels rooms within a 10-mile radius and the suburb of Pontiac has about 5,800 within a 10-mile radius.
In 2003, General Motors completed a $500 million redevelopment of the Renaissance Center as its world headquarters. The east riverfront promenade development was planned at and additional $559 million, including $135 million from GM and $50 million from the Kresge Fundation. The International Riverfront is linked by the River Walk, a promenade along connecting the cruise ship dock on Hart Plaza to a series of parks, restaurants, Asian Village, retail shops, and other venues from the Marriott at the Renaissance Center to the Omni Hotel at Riverplace on the historic Stroh’s riverplace site. Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos would played in the financing to reconstruct the city’s historic restoration of Campus Martius Park which now hosts events such as the Motown Winter Blast in January attracting large crowds.
Shopping and restaurants
See also: List of shopping malls in Michigan
Somerset Collection South adjacent to the Somerset Inn in Troy.
Several restaurant clusters with shopping districts and malls may be found throughout the region including Greektown, downtown, the Renaissance Center, Somerset Collection mall, Troy, Grosse Pointe, Dearborn, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Livonia, Ann Arbor and other suburbs.
Metropolitan Detroit has a variety of major shopping venues such as the upscale Somerset Collection mall in Troy which mall developers consider to be among the nation’s top privately held mall properties with 2004 annual sales of about $600 million and sales per square foot at $620 compared to the national average of $341. The Mall at Partridge Creek is an upscale outdoor lifestyle center located in Clinton Township. Other notable shopping malls in Detroit include Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, Laurel Park Place in Livonia, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, which was expanded in 2007 to include Nordstrom; and Great Lakes Crossing, an outlet mall in Auburn Hills which is among the largest malls in Michigan.
A new shopping center, the Shoppes at Gateway Park, is slated for construction in 2009-10 within Detroit’s city limits. When complete, the outdoor mall will provide the city of Detroit proper with its first full-line department store in nearly a decade.
The Eastern Market Historic District, a farmer’s distribution center in downtown Detroit, is the largest open-air flowerbed market in the United States and has more than 150 foods and specialty businesses. On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city’s historic Eastern Market.
Political impact
The city’s mayor in the 1990s, Dennis Archer, also a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, supported a plan which resulted in new casino resorts as a catalyst for urban development in Detroit. Initially, Archer’s plan was for a casino cluster along the east riverfront. In April 2005, after an eight-year legal battle over the bidding process, the courts cleared the way for the City of Detroit to permit its temporary casinos to build all new casino resorts, to open in late 2007. The settlement was further complicated by MGM’s acquisition of Mandalay Bay, then owner of the Motor City Casino. Upon acceptance of the settlement, Detroit entrepreneur Marion Illitch exercised her option to purchase Motor City Casino, outbidding other partners. The plan for the casino resort locations changed as the city decided instead to have the a promenade of parks along the International Riverfront to spur residential development, thus freeing the casinos to build in other areas of downtown. Detroit is the largest American city and metropolitan region to offer casino resorts.
2008 Tour De Troit.
There are $1.3 billion in new construction projects downtown. In 2007, complementing the MGM Grand Detroit, DTE Energy announced a $50 million transformation of the area around its downtown headquarters into an urban oasis with parks, walkways, and a reflecting pool. Completion of the MGM Grand Detroit resort in 2007 has opened new prospects for future development downtown with the west riverfront area and the area from MGM Grand Detroit to the Michigan Central Station. The question of how to finance a new convention facility to accommodate the expanding needs of the North American International Auto Show generated media attention and speculation with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s proposal for a fourth casino resort to anchor the convention center following the example of the Las Vegas Sands Expo convention center which would need approval from a state wide referendum. Governor Jennifer Granholm ultimately signed legislation on July 2, 2009 for a nearly $300 million expansion of Cobo Center; the plan calls for a 166,000 square foot addition. The legislation created a five-member board, appointed by the governor, the City of Detroit, and Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties to oversee the operation of the center with the city retaining ownership. The project, which also calls for the demolition of Cobo Arena in order to expand the center began October 1, 2009. Redevelopment design concepts include the possible addition of glass walls to connect the complex with the waterfront.
Detroit’s geographic proximity to Windsor, Ontario provides for spectacular views and nightlife, along with Ontario’s 19-and-older drinking age. The political clout of beer-drinking consumers has grown in the state, with politicians concerned about a backlash from the “beer vote” over a possible increase in the beer tax.
A strategy entitled Pure Michigan resulted in the State’s tourism website ranking as the busiest in the nation. Metro Detroit “urban destinations” such as The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Zoo were also emphasized in the strategy. This led to support for proposals for increased funding in 2008 for the Travel Michigan budget from Detroit area legislators.
Cultural centers
Detroit Institute of Arts
The Museum of African American History in Detroit.
The Midtown and the New Center area are centered around Wayne State University and Henry Ford Hospital. Midtown attracts millions of visitors each year to its museums and cultural centers. Other significant cultural centers include those in Dearborn, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe, Rochester Hills, and Ann Arbor. The fortunes of region’s auto barons and business leaders continue to facilitate philanthropy for museums and cultural centers.
The Detroit Cultural Center Historic District contains the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Detroit Science Center, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The Detroit Public Library is part of Detroit’s Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places adjacent to Wayne State University campus and across the street from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the Detroit Public Library (1921) was constructed with Vermont marble and serpentine Italian marble trim in an Italian Renaissance style. His son, Cass Gilbert, Jr. was a partner with Francis J. Keally in the design of the library’s additional wings added in 1963. Cass Gilbert also designed the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C..
Detroit Institute of Arts
Entering the Detroit Institute of Arts’ hallway, visitors pass the armor collection of William Randolph Hearst. Through the entry way is a grand marble court lined along the upper and lower levels with Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford. The French-American architect Paul Philippe Cret designed the building. The museum is part of the city’s Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Institute is among the largest art museums in the United States and contains over 100 galleries. The museum houses the 1150-seat Detroit Film Theatre, also used to showcase famous collections. Officials at the DIA have ranked the American paintings collection third among museums in the United States. Works by American artists began to be collected immediately following the museum’s founding in 1883.
The collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts include ancient Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian material, as well as a wide range of Islamic, African and Asian art of all media.
Entertainment
Theatre in Detroit is part of the Broadway theatre circuit. The Windsor-Detroit casino resorts have nightclubs, restaurants, and large performance centers for shows. Star performances in the city’s theatre district complement major events such as North American International Auto Show. There are a number of popular nightclubs including the Necto in Ann Arbor, the three-level St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, and the casino resorts.
Fox Theatre is a National Historic Landmark near Detroit’s Grand Circus.
Live music has been the dominant feature of Detroit’s nightlife since the late 1940s bringing the city worldwide attention. The metropolitan area has two of the top live music venues in the United States: DTE Energy Music Theatre and The Palace of Auburn Hills The Detroit Theatre District is the nation’s second largest after Manhattan’s Broadway. Major theaters include the Fox Theatre, Masonic Temple Theatre, the Detroit Opera House, and the Fisher Theatre. Detroit’s Orchestra Hall is the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The city hosts several annual music events, including the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Electronic Music Festival, the Motor City Music Conference (MC2), the Urban Organic Music Conference, the Concert of Colors, and the hip-hop Summer Jamz music festival.
Events
CityFest in the New Center with Cadillac Place in the backdrop across from the Hotel St. Regis.
Fireworks at the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival.
Major festivals and events
Timeline
North American International Auto Show
Cobo Hall – January.
Plymouth Ice Festival
Ice sculpture spectacular in January.
Motown Winter Blast
Campus Martius Park – January or February.
Detroit Music Awards
Held at The Fillmore Detroit Theatre in April.
Downriver Dream Cruise
Held in Southgate, Lincoln Park, Riverview, and Wyandotte.
Detroit Electronic Music Festival
Memorial Day weekend.
Civil War Remembrance
Held at The Henry Ford on Memorial Day.
Detroit Festival of the Arts
Midtown – early June.
Motor Muster
Held at The Henry Ford on Father’s Day weekend in June.
Detroit River Days
Detroit Riverfront- late June.
Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival
Last week of June.
Salute to America
Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs at The Henry Ford the four nights around on the Fourth of July.
CityFest sponsored by Comerica
Held in the New Center area around the Fourth of July.
Tall ships at the Dock of Detroit
Hart Plaza – summer.
Ann Arbor Art Fairs
Mid-July.
APBA Gold Cup
Detroit Thunderfest hydroplane races.
Meadowbrook Concours d’Elegance
Formal event and classic car show at Meadowbrook Hall in early August.
Detroit Fashion Week
August.
Fash Bash – a major fashion event
Coordinated by the Detroit Institute of Arts, typically at the Renaissance Center in August.
Woodward Dream Cruise
Third Saturday in August.
Meadowbrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, July-September.
Detroit Indy Grand Prix
Belle Isle Park – Labor Day weekend.
Detroit International Jazz Festival
International Riverfront – Labor Day weekend.
Rochester Art & Apples Festival sponsored by National City
Weekend after Labor Day.
Old Car Festival
Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford typically the weekend after Labor Day.
Urban Organic Festival link
Every fall.
America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November.
Theatre in Detroit
Spring, fall, and winter.
Sports and recreation
Comerica Park in 2007 adjacent to Ford Field.
Main articles: Sports in metropolitan Detroit, Huron-Clinton Metroparks, and Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge
The area which has hosted several major sporting events in order to attract large crowds such as Super Bowl XL; in fact, Detroit is the only northern city to have hosted two Super Bowls. Ford Field hosted the 2009 NCAA Final Four, where North Carolina defeated Michigan State; in April 2007 it hosted WrestleMania 23. Major League Baseball’s 2005 All-Star Game was held at Comerica Park, as were 2006 World Series games due to the Detroit Tigers success. The 2005 All Star Game injected $52 million into the area economy, while Super Bowl XL injected $270 million. In 2008, the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park reported 3.2 million visitors with a 98.6 percent attendance rate.
The area has a 24,000 acre network of “metro parks” which receives about 9 million visitors annually Outdoor activities in the metro region include downhill and cross-county skiing at Alpine Valley Ski Resort, Mt. Brighton, Mt Holly, and Pine Knob Ski Resort, Huron River kayaking and canoeing available through the Huron-Clinton Metroparks, and fresh water beaches such as Metro Beach, Kensington Beach, and Stony Creek Beach. Golf is an important sporting activity in the metropolitan area with a variety of courses, country clubs, and resorts. The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge is the only international wildlife preserve in North America, uniquely located in the heart of a major metropolitan area. The refuge includes islands, coastal wetlands, marshes, shoals, and waterfront lands along 48 miles of the Detroit River and Western Lake Erie shoreline.
Sites of interest
The beach on Lake St. Clair in the Metro Detroit suburb of St. Clair Shores
The Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life. The Zoo’s Rackham Memorial Fountain.
Attractions
Metro location
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory
Belle Isle Park – downtown Detroit
Architecture of metropolitan Detroit
City and suburbs
Automotive Hall of Fame
The Henry Ford – Dearborn
Charles H. Wright Museum
of African American History
Detroit
Cranbrook Educational Community
Bloomfield Hills
Chrysler Museum
Auburn Hills
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit
Detroit Science Center
Detroit
Theatre in Detroit
Downtown Detroit and New Center
Detroit Zoo
Royal Oak
Domino’s Petting Farm
Ann Arbor
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House tour
Grosse Pointe
Henry Ford’s Fair Lane Estate tour
Dearborn
Kensington Metropark Beach
Milford
The Henry Ford
Dearborn
Lawrence Fisher House tour
Detroit
Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Ann Arbor
Meadowbrook Hall
Matilda Dodge-Wilson Estate tour
Rochester Hills
Metro Beach Metropark
Harrison Township
Lake St. Clair
Motown Historical Museum
Detroit
Renaissance Center
Detroit International Riverfront
Russell A. Alger Jr., House,
The Grosse Pointe War Memorial
Grosse Pointe
Stony Creek Metropark Beach
Shelby Township
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Wayne State University
Detroit
Access
Main article: Transportation in metropolitan Detroit
Photo gallery
The Elwood Bar and Grill is officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The R. Hirt Jr., Co. (1893) in the Eastern Market. The architect is unknown.
Detroiter Bar in Bricktown.
Cheli’s Chili Bar on Grand Circus Park has a across from Comerica Park.
See also
Metro Detroit portal
Detroit celebrities
Detroit-style pizza
Images of Metro Detroit
Images of Michigan
Michigan History magazine
List of museums in Michigan
2020 Summer Olympics
Detroit-Windsor
Notes
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^ Lee, Danny (December 9, 2007).The 53 Places to Go in 2008.The New York Times. Retrieved on December 10, 2007.
^ USA Today (February 3, 2009).Film production studios coming to Michigan cities.Retrieved on March 27, 2009.
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^ Great Lakes Cruising Coalition Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
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^ Groover, Joel (June 1, 2004). Privacy Please. Retail Traffic Penton Media. Retrieved on September 3, 2007.
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^ McWhirter, Cameron and Darren A. Nichols (December 13, 2002). Hurdles will test riverfront vision. Detroit News.
^ Melmer, David (April 20, 2004). Detroit casinos settle with tribe. Indian County Today. Retrieved on September 18, 2007.
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^ July 4, 2007 Detroit News Downtown Detroit Partnership
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^ Belle Isle Detroit Department of Recreation. Retrieved on September 15, 2007. “Spectacular views.”
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Further reading
A&E with Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.D.,(2000). America’s Castles: The Auto Baron Estates, A&E Television Network.
Bridenstine, James (1989). Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814321615.
Cantor, George (2005). Detroit: An Insiders Guide to Michigan. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472030922.
Fisher, Dale (1996). Ann Arbor: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 096156234X.
Fisher, Dale (2005). Southeast Michigan: Horizons of Growth. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1891143255.
Fisher, Dale (1994). Detroit: Visions of the Eagle. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 0-9615623-3-1.
Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw (2000). The Detroit Almanac. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 0-937247-34-0.
Hauser, Michael and Marianne Weldon (2006). Downtown Detroit’s Movie Palaces (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4102-8.
Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.
Sharoff, Robert (2005). American City: Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3270-6.
Wilson, Matilda Rausch Dodge, Debbie Patrick, ed., (1998). A Place in the Country: Matilda Wilson’s Personal Guidebook to Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Press.
Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit 1701-2001. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2914-4.
External links
Detroit travel guide from Wikitravel
Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau
The New York Times listed Detroit on its list 53 places to visit in 2008. “The 53 Places to Go in 2008″ cited the new Casino resorts and the Detroit Institute of Arts as tourist attractions.
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Theatre in Detroit
Venues
Baldwin Theatre Bohemian National Home Bonstelle Theatre Century Theatre City Theatre Detroit Film Theatre Detroit Masonic Temple Detroit Opera House Detroit Repertory Theatre Fisher Theatre The Fillmore Detroit Fox Theatre Gem Theatre Grande Ballroom Greektown Casino Harpos Concert Theatre Hilberry Theatre MGM Grand Detroit Majestic Theater Max M. Fisher Music Center Motor City Casino Music Hall Center Orchestra Hall Redford Theatre Senate Theatre Studio Theatre
Organizations
Bert’s Entertainment Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Repertory Theatre Detroit Symphony Orchestra Greektown Casino Kresge Foundation Live Nation MGM Mirage Mosiac Youth Theatre Motor City Casino Nederlander Plowshares Theatre Co. Olympia Entertainment Wayne State University
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Shopping malls in metropolitan Detroit
Enclosed
Class A/B
Briarwood Mall Eastland Center Fairlane Town Center Great Lakes Crossing Lakeside Mall Laurel Park Place Macomb Mall The Mall of Monroe Northland Center Oakland Mall Renaissance Center Somerset Collection Southland Center Twelve Oaks Mall Westland Center
Open-air
Lifestyle Center
Class A/B
Green Oak Village Place The Mall at Partridge Creek Pavilions of Troy (approved) Shoppes at Gateway Park (approved) Southgate Shopping Center Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk The Village of Rochester Hills Wonderland Village
Class C/
Closed, under redevelopment
or demolished
Arborland Center Brighton Mall Great Oaks Mall Lincoln Park Shopping Center Livonia Mall Summit Place Mall Tel-Twelve Mall Universal Mall Winchester Mall
See also: Tourism in metropolitan Detroit
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Parks in metropolitan Detroit
Detroit city
Belle Isle Campus Martius Dequindre Cut International Riverfront Fort Wayne Grand Circus Michigan State Fairgrounds Palmer Park Patton Park
Water Works Park Washington Boulevard
Metro
600 to 1,500 acres (243 to 607 ha)
Addison Oaks Algonac State Park Belle Isle Camp Dearborn Crosswinds Marsh Independence Oaks Lower Huron Metamora-Hadley Recreation Area Metro Beach Metropark River Rouge Park Sterling State Park
1,500 to 5,000 acres (607 to 2,023 ha)
Bald Mountain Hines Drive Hudson Mills Huron Meadows Indian Springs Kensington Lake Erie Metropark Pontiac Lake Recreation Area Oakwoods Pointe Mouillee State Game Area Stony Creek Metropark Wolcott Mill Willow
over 5,000 acres (2,023 ha)
Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Highland Recreation Area Ortonville Recreation Area Waterloo State Recreation Area
Waterways
Clinton River Detroit River (Islands) Huron River Lake St. Clair River Rouge St. Clair River
Major beaches
Belle Isle Brighton Recreation Area
Kensington Lakeside Beach and Park Lighthouse Beach and Park Metro Beach Stony Creek
Trails
5 to 17 miles (8 to 27 km)
Bald Mountain Detroit River Walk / Dequindre Cut Highland Recreation Lakes Kensington Lakelands Trail State Park Maybury State Park Novi North Park Paint Creek Trail Poly Ann Trail Pontiac Lake Recreation Area Stony Creek Inwood Trails
Zoological and botanical
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory Cranbrook Detroit Zoo Matthaei Botanical Gardens
See also Tourism in metropolitan Detroit and Huron-Clinton Metroparks
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The Detroit Metro Area has a lot of really neat things for people to do and see.
I grew up in the Chicago Area.? I lived in the Cleveland-Akron Area, the Winston-Salem-Greensboro Area, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.? So I have not lived everywhere, but I have seen enough places to speak intelligently, and I?know that Detroit has things to offer.? Detroit has some things to offer, despite what you hear in the news and from people with negative attitudes.
These are the things I would miss the most if I no longer lived here:
1. Professional Sports Teams: You have the Red Wings (Hockey), the Tigers (Major League Baseball), the Lions who are now winners in football once again, the Pistons (Men’s Basketball), and the Shock (Women’s Basketball).? There are also several Minor League Baseball teams within a short drive, too.
2. Proximity to Universities (within 2 hours): University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan State University in Lansing, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Wayne State University in Detroit, University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Adrian College in Adrian, Albion College in Albion, Alma College in Alma, Olivet College in Olivet, and the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio.? Plus, there are several other smaller colleges throughout the city and the surrounding area.
3. Coney Island Restaurants: These are your basic greasy spoon Greek restaurants, but you can always find Chicken Lemon Soup and mouth watering, heart-killing Coney Dogs waiting for you to devour.? For those who do not know what a Coney Dog is, it is a hot dog in a bun topped with a special Coney Chili, onions, and mustard.? It sounds disgusting and is, but it sure tastes good!
4. Arabic/Middle Eastern Restaurants & Culture: Detroit Metro Area has the largest Arabic population outside of Middle East.? This is a pretty amazing fact.? It is nothing more than a mere fact, unless you count all of the places that serve wonderful baklava, an intensely sweet bakery desert that is almost like candy.? There is good humus and bad humus.? When you go to the right places, there are few things as tasty as a piece of warm, soft pita bread dipped into property flavored humus.? Then you have your supremely spiced meats: gyros, kababs, schawarmas, and more.? You will not find a dollar menu at these places, but you can eat a wonderful meal without spending a truckload of money.
5. Pizza Papalis: Buddy’s and Shield’s pizza are Detroit’s cornerstones for pizza.? They both have a good pan pizza.? However, as a non-native Detroiter, these do not compare with Pizza Papalis.? Chicago is known for their pizza.? There are many places outside of the Chicago Area that will claim to have Chicago-style pizza only to disappoint.? Pizza Papalis bakes a Chicago Style Pizza that favorably compares to Giordono’s in Chicago.? Amongst my personal favorites, their spinach and three cheese pizza with sausage and mushroom pizza is a thick, cheesy pizza that melts in your mouth and makes a tremendous mess on your plate.
6. Cooke’s Dairy Farm: There are other dairy farms, but there are two (2) things that separate this from the pack.? Their ice cream is the creamiest ice cream ever.? It’s expensive and tremendously fattening but wonderfully worthwhile.? Also, they let people approach many of their animals, which are caged but are still extremely accessible.? This makes a fun date or a family outing.? The ice cream is really wonderful, though.
7. Casinos: There are three (3) casinos within Detroit city limits: Greektown, MGM Grand, and MotorCity.? You can stay at their hotels (which I have not done), but they all offer some adult fun.? Plus, there are many others throughout Michigan.? Often, there is entertainment playing in the background.? Winning is so fun, too.? We will not mention those other visits when we are not winning.
8. Greektown 
Besides the casino, this is a section of Detroit that offers a taste of city living in older days.? It also has several Greek restaurants.? There is a Pizza Papalis restaurant there.? After you eat and gamble, there are a couple of bakeries.? My favorite is Astoria, which has gigantic portions.? The only thing larger than the portions is the goodie selection.? When you are all done, you can take a quick tour of Detroit by paying fifty cents per person to ride the People Mover, a train that circles downtown Detroit and surrounding mini-neighborhoods.? The neatest part of this trip is when you look across the river to see Canada and its Windsor, Ontario skyline.? It looks really neat at night. Oh!? Did I mention the free parking if you park in the casino parking lot?
9. Mexicantown: This is a part of Detroit that does not really pass the “looks test,” and the surrounding neighborhoods are uninviting, to say the least.? Once you get to Mexicantown, you will see a cluster of Mexican restaurants plus some shops.? The food is big-time good, and it’s fantastically economical.? It’s different than any other area I have ever seen.
10. Close Proximity to Canada Before the days of 9/11, this really was a benefit. Just on the other side of the river, the city of Windsor awaits.? You can go there by an underground tunnel or a bridge.? It is neat to see a culture that is not very different from the United States, yet you know that you are in a different country.? The shops look different.? They post speed limits in kilometers, not miles, per hour.? They use different currency; so their money looks different.? They have different candies.? Windsor is not nearly as large as Detroit, but it is every bit a city.? From my perspective, I feel like I am making a time warp to a simpler time when I cross the river.
11. Greenfield Village: This is an outdoor museum.? While that is unique, the real flavor comes from the setup. It is created as a historical village, waiting for you to discover it and learn history within it.? There was even someone who kept riding around the village on a unicycle.? Bands roam the village, playing old-time tunes.? You will get your exercise walking around it.? It is a large facility.
12. Specialty Fruit Markets There are many fruit markets, specializing in carefully picked fruits and vegetables.? Oddly, in my part of town in Waterford, there are not any, but in most other areas within the Detroit Area, there are.? Some of my favorites include Westborn Market, Papa Joe’s, and Nino Salvagio’s.? Bring your money, because these places are not cheap, but you will get the best.
13. Eastern Market I lived in the Detroit Area for years before I knew about this.? It is an outdoor farmer’s market that is open every Saturday.? In the summertime, during the mid-morning, you will hear music playing throughout.? Eastern Market is a huge market, and I mean huge.? Not only do you have the market, you have actual storefronts that border outside the covered market area.? There are meat, fruit, and other warehouses.? If you go late enough (say one or two o’clock), you can get really good deals, as the vendors are looking to leave with as many sales as they can.? Plus, there is a grill station (actually several beside each other) that cannot be any shorter than fifty feet.? Oh, does it smell good, too.
14. Woodward Dream Cruise For those non-Detroiters, Woodward Avenue is a main throughway that runs from Downtown Detroit to Pontiac, an urban-suburb north of Detroit, about 30 to 40 miles.? This route runs through some charming suburban towns, anyway, but each year on one August Saturday, this road becomes a automotive showcase.? Drivers will cruise down Woodward for miles at a slow speed.? People are situated on the side of the road for miles and miles to see these old cars.? Plus, there are many side Old Car Shows on the side.? Here is where you can talk to the car owners, and so many of them are all too happy to tell you about their pride and joy.? It is really a silly thing, but it is also really neat and a whole lot of fun.
15. Close Proximity to Beautiful Parts of Michigan This includes beaches and parks.? Michigan is surrounded by the Great Lakes, and so many other rivers go through it.? Smaller lakes make their home inside the state.? Finding beaches requires no skill here.? You want to fish, swim, camp, or just walk around really scenic areas, you are never far from it here.? People mention “going north,” and they mean that scenic areas with a simple lifestyle is found by driving north on I-75.? You can say this about many places, but it is true in Michigan more than most.
16. Near Many Orchards Depending upon what is “in season,” you can pick strawberries, apples, peaches, blueberries, and more with only a short drive from Detroit.? Plus, many orchards offer hayrides and places for your kids to play.? It really becomes an event.
17. Frankenmuth This town is less than two (2) hours from most parts of the Detroit Metro Area.? This is a town that is an obvious tourist trap, but it is still worth seeing.? It is an old-time German town, placing a large emphasis on Christmas.? In fact, on the town’s outskirt, there is a store called Bronner’s, which sells Christmas themed things nearly every day, except, well Christmas.? The town’s most celebrated restaurants are Zehnders and Bavarian Inn.? You can order many things, but I recommend the Family Style Chicken Dinner.? There are small shops within the downtown area, and it sits beside a scenic river.
I might have missed some other things, which is good.? That means that the Detroit Area offers even more than I am promising.? Enjoy Detroit!
Chris Wechner is a beginning investor who succeeded as a stock trader but is learning the ropes as a real estate investor. He is a teacher by nature and targets making seemingly complicated things simple. For more information, you can visit his website at http://detroit-area.blogspot.com
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By Mark Whichard
A vacation in Disney World in Orlando, Florida is surely something to look forward to, but a successful vacation also requires some preparation especially when it comes to choosing accommodations. In case you are still deciding on where to stay when you visit the Orlando area, let me explain some of the benefits of Orlando vacation condos, condominium apartments that are available to vacationers for rent on a nightly or weekly basis.
During the past ten years there has been a tremendous boom in vacation condo rentals and vacation home rentals in the Orlando area. The reason for this boom is simply that vacation condo rentals and vacation home rentals provide a tremendous combination of space, luxury, convenience and economy that savvy vacationers have been eager to take advantage of.
Let’s consider the issue of space first. If you stay in a hotel you and your family will be cramped into one or two small rooms. Sure you can put up with it for a week, and you will not spend all your time at the hotel, but have you ever considered that you do not live your life at home in one or two rooms, so why should you start doing it when you are trying to relax on your vacation. The vacation condo rentals are spacious, with two or three bedrooms, large living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. The condos also have two bathrooms. You will definitely have room to stretch out in and relax yourself.
I mentioned luxury and the reason for this is that the vacation condos are situated in communities that have community clubhouses with game-rooms, fitness centers, movie theaters, swimming pools, playgrounds, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts. The condos are also fully furnished and equipped with TVs, DVD players and in many cases high speed Internet service and a free international/long distance telephone service.
Convenience is another important benefit of staying in a vacation condo. The condos are located in resort communities that are only minutes away from Disney World and other Orlando attractions. There are plenty of shopping facilities and restaurants adjacent to or nearby the condos. On top of that, many of the condominiums offer a free shuttle service that will take you to all the attractions. You can forget about spending long hours in your car or fighting with traffic jams.
If you are traveling with your family or a group of people you can save a lot of money by staying in a rental condo. For example, a two bedroom, two bath condo, big enough to comfortably accommodate six people can be rented for as little as $99 per night during the low season, and no more than $140 per night in the holiday seasons (Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving and Easter).
I gave the example of a two bedroom condo, but you can also get condos and townhomes with three bedrooms as well. The important thing is to start looking for the condo that is best for you and your family and to make your reservation in advance. Early selection and reservation is especially important if you are planning to take your vacation during the holiday periods.
So, if you want to get luxurious, comfortable but economic accommodations in the Orlando area, then consider a renting a vacation condo.
About the Author: Mark Whichard is an Orlando vacation specialist and frequently writes about Orlando tourism. Visit his website for great deals on Orlando vacation condos: http://www.keyvacationhomes.com
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