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Imagine moving from the very last seat on a packed airplane at one end of a mile-long concourse to a connecting flight at the other end in 22 minutes or [...]

Detroit's federal empowerment zone program, completing its third year, generates financial statistics that spark euphoria in economic-development circles. Here's a sampling: Banks are nearing the $900 million loan mark in [...]

Developers hot on M-14 Lunch-hour traffic swamps the Speedway gas station and convenience store in Plymouth Township. Right now it's one of the few places around to get gas or [...]

PAUL GARGARO Relaxation isn't on the agenda for David Brandon, who resigned this spring from the helm of Valassis Communications Inc. The 46-year-old former president and CEO of Valassis has [...]

REIT boosts restaurant property acquisitions PAUL GARGARO Captec Not Lease Realty Inc.'s second-quarter revenue jumped 95 percent, reflecting an aggressive round of acquisitions by the Ann Arbor real estate investment [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Construction on the third and final phase of Avis Farms Research & Business Park is expected to start next month in Pittsfield Township, continuing about [...]

PAUL GARGARO Harvey Rabinowitz says he doesn't have a clear goal for his 2-year-old media-buying business. Perhaps he hasn't had time to establish one. Or maybe he just doesn't need [...]

PAUL GARGARO BridgeStreet Accommodations Inc. is settling into metro Detroit for what it hopes is a permanent, prosperous stay. Cleveland-based BridgeStreet (Nasdaq: BEDS), a provider of extended-stay apartments and townhouses [...]

PAUL GARGARO It's not easy being a commercial film company from Detroit. Everyone knows the best commercials are shot by New York or Los Angeles directors. As unfair as that [...]

PAUL GARGARO Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he 'resents' attempts by the-city of Detroit to lure Compuware Corp. downtown. Farmington Hills' city manager says he won't let the [...]

PAUL GARGARO Champion Enterprises Inc. topped expectations with record second-quarter earnings, thanks to sustained demand for its manufactured homes and growing retail business. For the quarter, Champion (NYSE: CHB) reported [...]

MATT ROUSH, PAUL GARGARO and DAVID BARKHOLZ Peter Karmanos Jr., a Detroit native, clearly is giving downtown Detroit every opportunity to win the new headquarters of Compuware Corp. But can [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS HomeTown Communications Network has acquired Oak Communications Inc., publisher of the Mirror newspapers in Oakland County. Livonia-based HomeTown, which owns the Observer & Eccentric and [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Bingham Financial Services Corp. (Nasdaq: BFCS) is spending $71 million to acquire two local lenders. The deals would be paid primarily in stock, according to [...]

Auch Co. is thriving on repeat business PAUL GARGARO If education and a healthy lifestyle are keys to success, expect the George W. Auch Co. to flourish in coming years. [...]

A Minnesota-based chain of quick-serve Chinese restaurants has plans to open nine units in the Detroit area over the next year and 20 by 2000. Leeann Chin Inc. is making [...]

PAUL GARGARO Macomb County's housing production may never exceed that of its larger neighbor, Oakland County, but on a per-capita basis more single-family homes are being built there than in [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS State lawmakers last month approved legislation that would enable Augusta Township to create a special tax district to support development of 1,880 acres for a [...]

PAUL GARGARO William Anthony & Associates has tied up the last big chunk of empty land in Bloomfield Hills and is starting its transformation into Barrington Park. The housing project [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Saline city officials will break ground today on Sauk Trail Business Park, a 116-acre industrial site that was to have housed a huge television parts [...]

$270M Ann Arbor expansion over 3 years may add 215 jobs PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Warner-Lambert Co.'s Parke-Davis division is planning a $270 million capital investment in Ann Arbor [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Grand/Sakwa Properties Inc. plans to develop one of the largest pieces of vacant land in Southfield into 400 condominiums and 45,000 square feet of retail [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Tri-Mount Vincenti Cos. expects to break ground this week on the final two condominium buildings at its Main Street Centre in Royal Oak and wrap [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS The Macomb Daily plans to begin switching from afternoon to morning delivery starting June 15. The Mt. Clemens-based paper circulates 58,370 copies daily and 83,888 [...]

Thomas BeVier David V. Johnson has long had an eye for profitable real estate. While attending Michigan State University, he acquired a gas station. By the time Johnson graduated in [...]

PAUL GARGARO Domino's Pizza Inc. has postponed plans to build the sixth and final phase of its 693,000-square-foot Prairie House corporate complex in Ann Arbor Township. After meeting with franchisees [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Metro Detroit's pre-eminent office center appears to be back in play about 18 months after its acquisition by the Government of Singapore. Sources say the [...]

Does lack of competition stall solution? PAUL GARGARO If Northwest Airlines Corp. had more competition in Detroit or Minneapolis, its labor problems already would have been settled. That's the sentiment [...]

ROBERT SHEREFKIN and PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS One of North America's largest automotive parts-makers intends to build a bigger presence in the Detroit area. Toledo-based Dana Corp. plans to [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS DeMattia Development Co. has broken ground on the first of five speculative commercial buildings that total about 360,000 square feet and are worth an estimated [...]

Redico plans 525,000 sq. ft. near Oakland Towne Square PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Robert Sosnick's Real Estate Development and Investment Corp. plans to add 525,000 square feet of office [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Spun off from its parent, fledgling Bingham Financial Service Corp. is looking to prosper in new lending arenas. The opportunity comes by way of Bingham's [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS While big commercial real estate deals dominated headlines last year, at least two residential transactions are worth noting. Sales of the two apartment portfolios late [...]

Trerice Tosto now Colliers International PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS A familiar name in Detroit real estate is starting the year with a new moniker, and new out-of-town partners. Late [...]

PAUL GARGARO Metro Detroit's newspaper battlefront shifted last week, with Independent Newspapers Inc.'s departure from the Spring Network and its replacement by Warren-based C&G Publishing Inc. The Independent papers, including [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Grow grass on concrete? It sounds unlikely, but that's what's planned for portions of the expanded Grand Prix racetrack on Bello Isle. The new grass [...]

PAUL GARGARO and JEFFREY McCRACKEN Just once, Detroit architect Robert Kraemer would like to design a house completely of steel. He figures he could make it unlike any other, with [...]

PAUL GARGARO CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS Southfield is alive with the sound of international relations, thanks to a partnership with Klagenfurt, Austria. Delegations from the cities have shuttled back and forth [...]