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A new shopping center, [[The Shoppes at Gateway Park]], is slated for construction in 2008 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.<ref name="detnews">{{cite web |url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/BIZ/710060367 |title=Detroit mall still on track |accessdate=2007-12-04 |last=Hurst |first=Nathan |date=2007-10-06 |work=[[The Detroit News]]}}</ref>
A new shopping center, [[The Shoppes at Gateway Park]], is slated for construction in 2008 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.<ref name="detnews">{{cite web |url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/BIZ/710060367 |title=Detroit mall still on track |accessdate=2007-12-04 |last=Hurst |first=Nathan |date=2007-10-06 |work=[[The Detroit News]]}}</ref>


The [[Neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan#Eastern Market|Eastern Market]], 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.<ref>[http://www.easternmarket.org/page.cfm/19/ History of Eastern Market]. ''Eastern Market Merchant's Association''. Retrieved on August 1, 2007.</ref> On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic [[Eastern Market, Detroit|Eastern Market]].<ref> [http://www.modeldmedia.com/neighborhoods/easternmarket.aspx Eastern Market]''Model D Media'' Retrieved on April 8, 2007.</ref>
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.<ref>[http://www.easternmarket.org/page.cfm/19/ History of Eastern Market]. ''Eastern Market Merchant's Association''. Retrieved on August 1, 2007.</ref> On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic [[Eastern Market, Detroit|Eastern Market]].<ref> [http://www.modeldmedia.com/neighborhoods/easternmarket.aspx Eastern Market]''Model D Media'' Retrieved on April 8, 2007.</ref>


===Political impact===
===Political impact===

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The Cranbrook Art Museum and educational community in suburb of Bloomfield Hills is a National Historic Landmark.

Tourism in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan is a significant factor in the regional economy. About 15.9 million people visit Metro Detroit annually, spending an estimated $4.8 billion.[1][2]

Market overview

Tourists can ride in a Model T in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, a National Historic Landmark.
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Meadow Brook Hall in the suburb of Rochester Hills is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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. Other major 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 one million people.[3]

Besides casino gaming, the region's leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America's largest indoor-outdoor museum complex,[4][5] 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.[6] The Detroit Festival of the Arts in Midtown draws about 350,000 people.[7] 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.[8]

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 & 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. It 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.[9] An estimated 46 million people live within a 300 mile (480 km) radius of Metro Detroit.[10][11] Since 2000, the city has seen continuous annual increases in tax revenues from its casinos; the city estimates it will collect $178,250,000 in casino taxes alone for 2007, with the casino resorts open in 2008.[12] 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 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 will host the 2009 NCAA Final Four; 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. Metro Detroit is one of thirteen U.S. cities with teams from four major sports. The New York Times listed Detroit among its 53 world travel destinations for 2008.[13]

Hospitality infrastructure

Cruise ships, hotels, and resorts

Detroit Princess Riverboat charter hosts regularly scheduled public cruises.

The Dock of Detroit on Hart Plaza near the Renaissance Center receives major cruise ships and tall ships.[14] 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.[15] 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. 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.

In 2003, General Motors completed a $500 million redevelopment of the Renaissance Center as its world headquarters.[16][17] The east riverfront promenade development was planned at and additional $559 million, including $135 million from GM and $50 million from the Kresge Fundation.[18] 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

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Somerset Collection South adjacent to the Somerset Inn in Troy.

Several restaurant and shopping cluster areas may be found throughout the region including Greektown, downtown, the Renaissance Center, Somerset Collection mall, Grosse Pointe, Dearborn, Rochester, Livonia, Ann Arbor and other suburbs.

Metropolitan Detroit has a number of indoor shopping venues, including Northland Center, which is considered the first regional shopping mall in the United States. Other major shopping venues include the upscale Somerset Collection mall in Troy; mall developers consider Somerset Collection 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.[19]

Other notable shopping malls in Detroit include Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, which was expanded in 2007 to include Nordstrom; and Great Lakes Crossing, an outlet mall in Auburn Hills and the largest mall in Michigan.

A new shopping center, The Shoppes at Gateway Park, is slated for construction in 2008 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.[20]

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.[21] On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic Eastern Market.[22]

Political impact

The city's mayor in the 1990s, Dennis Archer, also a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, supported a plan to add casino resorts as a catalyst for urban development in Detroit. Initially, Archer's plan was for a casino cluster along the east riverfront.[23] After an eight-year legal battle over the bidding process, the City of Detroit cleared the temporary casinos in April 2005 to build new casino resorts, to open in late 2007.[24] The settlement was further complicated by the acquisition of Mandalay Bay, then owner of the Motor City Casino, by MGM Mirage. Upon acceptance of the settlement, Detroit entrepreneur Marion Illitch exercised her option to purchase Motor City Casino, outbidding other partners.[25] The plan for the casino resort locations had 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.

Michigan Central Station on 24 June 2006.

There are $1.3 billion in new construction projects downtown.[26] 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.[27] 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 wide open for development prospects. The question of how to finance a new convention facility to accommodate the expanding needs of the North American International Auto Show has 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.[28]

Detroit's geographic proximity to Windsor, Ontario provides for spectacular views and nightlife,[29] along with Ontario's 19-and-older drinking age.[30] 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.[31]

A strategy entitled Pure Michigan resulted in the State's tourism website ranking as the busiest in the nation.[32] Metro Detroit "urban destinations" such as The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Zoo were also emphasized in the strategy.[33] This led to support for proposals for increased funding in 2008 for the Travel Michigan budget from Detroit area legislators.[34]

Cultural centers

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Industry by Diego Rivera.
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.[35] 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

Fox Theatre is a National Historic Landmark near Detroit's Grand Circus.

The Detroit Theatre District 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.

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[36] The Detroit Theatre District is the nation's second largest in terms of seats. Major theaters include the Fox Theatre,[37] 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

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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.
Festivals and events Details
Ann Arbor Art Fairs Mid-July.
APBA Gold Cup Detroit Thunderfest hydroplane races.
CityFest sponsored by Comerica Held in the New Center area around the Fourth of July.
Civil War Remembrance Held at The Henry Ford on Memorial Day.
Detroit Electronic Music Festival Memorial Day weekend.
Detroit Music Awards Held at The Fillmore Detroit Theatre in April.
Detroit Festival of the Arts Midtown - early June.
Detroit River Days Detroit Riverfront- late June.
Fash Bash - a major fashion event[37] Coordinated by the Detroit Institute of Arts, typically at the Renaissance Center.
Detroit Indy Grand Prix Belle Isle Park - Labor Day weekend.
Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance Formal event and classic car show at Meadowbrook Hall in early August.
Meadowbrook Music Festival Rochester Hills, July-September.
Motor Muster Held at The Henry Ford on Father's Day weekend in June.
Motown Winter Blast Campus Martius Park - January or February.
North American International Auto Show Cobo Hall - January
Old Car Festival Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford typically the weekend after Labor Day.
Plymouth Ice Festival Ice sculpture spectacular in January.
Rochester Art & Apples Festival sponsored by National City Weekend after Labor Day.
Salute to America Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs at The Henry Ford the four nights around on the Fourth of July.
Tall ships at the Dock of Detroit Hart Plaza - summer.
Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival Last week of June.
Woodward Dream Cruise Third Saturday in August.

Sports and outdoor activities

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 has a 24,000 acre network of "metro parks" which receives about 9 million visitors annually[38] 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.

Landmarks

The region's historic architecture and cultural heritage serve an intrinsic role for the tourism industry. Founded in 1701 by the French official Antoine de Cadillac, Detroit contains the second-oldest Roman Catholic parish in the United States. The Gothic Revival architecture of Ste. Anne de Detroit (1887) by Alert E. French and Leon Conquard includes flying buttresses, displaying the French influence. It is on the site of the city's original French Catholic Parish. The French Gothic St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church (1899) is one of the many landmarks in Grosse Pointe. Alexander Chapoton, of one of the city's oldest French families, built Detroit's original City Hall. The Queen Anne-style Alexander Chapoton House (c. 1870) still stands at 511 Beubien. The Sheraton Detroit Riverside Hotel (formerly Hotel Pontchartrain) stands on the cite of Detroit's original French Fort Pontchartrain.

St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church (1899) at 157 Lake Shore in Grosse Pointe - French Gothic by Harry J. Rill

The Gothic styled St. Joseph Church, (1873/1883), by Francis Himpler, is an authentic German Catholic Parish noted for its architecture and stained glass and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Others include Old St. Mary's Church (1885) in Greektown, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament (1915) and Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian (1958) in Bloomfield Hills by Wirt C. Rowland. The Victorian Gothic style St. John's Episcopal Church (1861) sits across from the opulent Fox Theater (1928) on Woodward Avenue.

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James Scott Memorial Fountain on Belle Isle ParkFile:JamesScootfountainliondetroitbelleilsle.jpg

The large concentration of Poles in the metropolitan Detroit resulted in a number of ornate churches in the Polish Cathedral style designed by noted architects. The Gothic styled St. Albertus' (1885) was Detroit's first Polish Catholic parish. St. Hedwig's (1915) and the Baroque styled St. Stanislaus' (1913) are other examples. Ralph Adams Cram designed the Gothic St. Florian's Church (1928) in Hamtramck.

In the late nineteenth century, Detroit was called the Paris of the West for its architecture and open public spaces,[39] in keeping with the City Beautiful movement.[40] Architects John and Arthur Scott designed the Wayne County Building (1897) in downtown Detroit. Topped with bronze quadrigas by J. Massey Rhind and an Anthony Wayne pediment by Edward Wagner, it may be America's finest surviving example of Roman Baroque architecture with a blend of Beaux-Arts.

The Detroit area is home to light houses, yacht clubs, and monuments. Examples include the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (1929) and the Beaux-Arts Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate (1894) at Waterworks Park.[41] Architects such as Cass Gilbert who designed the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC also designed the Detroit Public Library (1921) and Belle Isle's James Scott Fountain.[42] Frederick Olmsted, landscape architect of New York City's Central Park, designed Detroit's 982 acre Belle Isle park.

Paul Cret, architect of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. designed the Detroit Institute of Arts building while Marshall Fredericks' sculptures, which include the Spirit of Detroit, may be seen throughout the metropolitan area. Sculptor Corrado Parducci's work adorns many notable Metro Detroit buildings such as the Meadowbrook Hall mansion, the Guardian Building, the Buhl Building (1925), the Penobscot Building, the Fisher Building and the David Stott Building.

Grand Circus

Soldiers's and Sailors' Monument (1872) on Campus Martius.
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Grand Circus Park.

In 1805, Detroit suffered a devastating fire, which destroyed most of the city's French colonial architecture. Shortly afterward, Father Gabriel Richard said, "Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus," meaning "We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes" which became the city's official motto. For Detroit, Justice Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, DC. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the city's theater district.[43]

The Fox Theatre (1928), by C. Howard Crane, near the city's Grand Circus is a National Historic Landmark. The Detroit Opera House (1922), also by Crane, faces Grand Circus Park. The grounds include antique statuary and old-fashioned water fountains. Architect Henry Bacon designed the Russell Alger Memorial Fountain (1921) in Grand Circus Park. The Russell Alger Memorial Fountain contains a classic Roman figure symbolizing Michigan by renowned American sculptor Daniel French.[44]

Campus Martius

Woodward Fountain on Campus Martius

Campus Martius is a park at the encircled confluence of Woodward Avenue and Michigan Avenue. Grand Circus is also on Woodward Avenue, down the street from Campus Martius. It serves as one of the city's central gathering place for events. The park disappeared in the 20th century as the downtown reconfigured to accommodate increased vehicular traffic. In 2004 the city restored the park and traffic circle. Hart Plaza, along the riverfront, was designed to replace Campus Martius as a focal point. Compuware World Headquarters overlooks the reconstructed traffic cycle surrounding Campus Martius Park with the historic Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument of the American Civil War by Randolph Rogers.[44]

Sites of interest

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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 Detroit 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 Theatre District 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

See also

Notes

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  2. ^ Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau statistics Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  3. ^ Bailey, Ruby L (August 22, 2007). The D is a draw: Most suburbanites are repeat visitors.Detroit Free Press. New Detroit Free Press-Local 4 poll conducted by Selzer and Co., finds, "nearly two-thirds of residents of suburban Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties say they at least occasionally dine, attend cultural events or take in professional games in Detroit."
  4. ^ America's Story, Explore the States: Michigan (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Library of Congress
  5. ^ State of Michigan: MI Kids (2006).Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
  6. ^ Corley, Irvin (April 30, 2003).2003-04 Budget Analysis City of Detroit Memorandum to Graham Beal, Director, Arts Department. Retrieved on November 10, 2007. "The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United States and contains an encyclopedic art collection worth over one billion dollars."
  7. ^ Midtown Model D Media. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  8. ^ Metro Detroit Tourism Barometer, (February 2007. Detroit Tourism Economic Development Council. Retrieved on September 18, 2007.
  9. ^ Cordiano, Joseph (February 15, 2005). Government of Ontraio invests in a competitive Casino Windsor.Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. Retrieved on October 28, 2007."Casino Windsor attracts around six million visitors each year and is a key driver of the local economy."
  10. ^ Cities located close to Detroit.Time and Date world clock distances. Retrieved on September 2, 2007.
  11. ^ Audi, Tamara (September 26, 2007). What Happens In Detroit. The Wall Street Journal, B6. "But the market at issue, as MGM Mirage sees it, includes a 300-mile radius of potential overnight clients across the region,"
  12. ^ City of Detroit General Fund -Percent Change in major Revenue Sources. City of Detroit 2006-07 Budget
  13. ^ Lee, Danny (December 9, 2007). The 53 Places to Go in 2008.The New York Times. Retrieved on December 10, 2007.
  14. ^ Runk, David, Associated Press (July 11, 2006).Great Lakes cruises offer majestic views USA Today. Retrieved on May 29, 2007.
  15. ^ Great Lakes Cruising Coalition Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  16. ^ Mercer, Tenisha (October 19, 2005).GM's RenCen renovation attracts new business back. Detroit News.Retrieved on July 24, 2007.
  17. ^ Metropolitan Detroit renaissance benefits local tourism DEGA. Retrieved on July 24, 2007.
  18. ^ Detroit News Editorial (December 13, 2002). At Last, Sensible Dream for Detroit's Riverfront. Detroit News.
  19. ^ Groover, Joel (June 1, 2004). Privacy Please. Retail Traffic Penton Media. Retrieved on September 3, 2007.
  20. ^ Hurst, Nathan (2007-10-06). "Detroit mall still on track". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  21. ^ History of Eastern Market. Eastern Market Merchant's Association. Retrieved on August 1, 2007.
  22. ^ Eastern MarketModel D Media Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
  23. ^ McWhirter, Cameron and Darren A. Nichols (December 13, 2002). Hurdles will test riverfront vision. Detroit News.
  24. ^ Melmer, David (April 20, 2004). Detroit casinos settle with tribe. Indian County Today. Retrieved on September 18, 2007.
  25. ^ Illitch outbids partners for Motor City Casino. The Michigan Daily. Retrieved on Septbember 18, 2007.
  26. ^ The world is coming, see the change City of Detroit Partnership (accessed 03-31-2007).
  27. ^ July 4, 2007 Detroit News Downtown Detroit Partnership
  28. ^ Gabriel, Larry (February 21, 2007). When pigs fly.Metro Times Editorial. Retrieved on October 28, 2007.
  29. ^ Belle Isle Detroit Department of Recreation. Retrieved on September 15, 2007. "Spectacular views."
  30. ^ La Canfora, Jason. "Detroit's Big Party Next Door. In Windsor, Temptation Waits for Players, Fans". The Washington Post. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  31. ^ Crain, Keith (August 27, 2007).Now we have become the 'beer' state. Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved on September 18, 2007.
  32. ^ Great Lakes IT Report. (May 3, 2007,).Michigan's Tourism Website No. 1 in the U.S. Retrieved on August 10, 2007.
  33. ^ Borgstrom, Kirsten (June 19, 2006).Pure Michigan.Michigan.org. Retrieved on November 5, 2007.
  34. ^ Lane, Amy (August 27, 2007).Tourism Industry seeks $30M in annual funding.Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved on November 6, 2007.
  35. ^ Midtown Model D Media Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
  36. ^ DTE Energy Music Theatre Listed as 2004 Top Attended Amphitheatre (1/25/05). DTE Energy Music Theatre.
  37. ^ a b Hodges, Michael H. (September 8, 2003).Fox Theater's rebirth ushered in city's renewal. Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved on November 23, 2007.
  38. ^ Huron Clinton Metro Parks Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  39. ^ Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit: 1701-2001. Wayne State University Press.
  40. ^ Bluestone, Daniel M., Columbia University, (September 1988).Detroit's City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, pp. 245-62. Retrieved on May 18, 2007.
  41. ^ Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate Detroit 1701.org (accessed 03-31-2007).
  42. ^ James Scott Fountain Detroit 1701.org (accessed 03-31-2007).
  43. ^ Baulch, Vivian M. (June 13, 1999). Woodward Avenue, Detroit's Grand old "Main Street" Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved on November 23, 2007.
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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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 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.



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