DETROIT – If you’ve driven down West Grand Boulevard, you’ve seen it. Honestly, you can’t miss it. It’s Lee Plaza, a 16-story abandoned hotel that has stood empty since it closed in 1997 ...

Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The popular riverfront gathering spot was officially added to the register at the end of August, six years after ...

The festival kicks off at 6:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, in Hart Plaza with New Orleans drum master Herlin Riley leading Dr. Valade’s Brass Band to the amphitheater stage, where Detroit jazz harp ...

Detroit — The city is tackling a third phase of renovations to Hart Plaza, this time a $2.4 million redesign of its grand staircase and making the plaza more accessible for those with disabilities.

The Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain at Detroit’s Hart Plaza has always been the heart of Movement Music Festival, a central place for revelers to meet up, pose for photos, and rest between sets.

(CBS DETROIT) - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joined community leaders and partners Monday for a groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site of the new Chandler Park Fieldhouse.

Art centers aren’t normally recognized for controversy — not unless they involve controversial artists like the late Robert Mapplethorpe. But in Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit, residents are ...

Renaming Detroit's Hart Plaza is on the table among city lawmakers. Detroit City Council members initially eyed changing the name to "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza," a move proposed by ...

Since opening in 1975, the plaza has been named after the late U.S. Sen. Philip Hart, a white Democrat who was a leading advocate for the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and other anti-racism measures.

Underused park at the foot of Detroit’s transformed Michigan Central Station is getting a $6 million makeover By Matt Hickman • July 22, 2022 • Landscape Architecture, Midwest, Urbanism ...