Opportunity Detroit-Woodward
Dan Gilbert, Quicken Loans founder and Chairman presented the case for Opportunity Detroit on March 28, 2013 at Hockeytown’s City Theatre. Opportunity Detroit is a brand and an initiative to vitalize downtown Detroit.More

After an absence of over 70 years, Detroit Electric, the innovative electric car manufacturer, has returned to the legendary Motor City, promising job creation and a range of exciting 100% electric vehicles for the mass market.
Living in a Detroit neighborhood devastated by vacant lots and abandoned eyesores, my chief dilemma is the same one shared by my neighbors: Do I leave the city I love, or do I stay?
The annual Dinner and Bikes Tour, a multimedia road show of food and bicycle activism, will be putting on events in 27 cities in eleven states in the mid-western and northeast U.S. during National Bike Month in May. The tour is a call to action for communities around the U.S. to take the lead in growing the national bicycle movement.
The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council (MiEIBC) hailed the launch of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative, and called for the manufacturing innovation institute included in yesterday’s announcement to be based in Michigan.
“It’s actually pretty amazing. The hospital employees are now parking their cars in the parking garage at night because of the new lighting,” commented Joe Romero, Representative of California Electric Supply. In the summer of 2012, the Sacramento, California hospital reached out to California Electric Supply and Greentech of Ventura to complete a lighting upgrade that would significantly improve security in the parking garage and lower energy consumption.