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[edit] Tourism
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] Michigan's tourism website ranks among the busiest in the nation.[2] A tourist destination, the Detroit area provides a myriad of things to see and do.[3]
[edit] Overview
[edit] Tourism infrastructure
As the world's traditional automotive center, the city hosts the annual North American International Auto Show in January. The region's leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America's largest indoor-outdoor museum complex.[4] [5] More than a museum, it is a museum entertainment complex with an IMAX theater next to the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn. Another automotive attraction cataloguing 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 provide unique insight into the industry. The Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak has the nation's largest polar bear exhibit. The zoo has a train which encircles the park. Many visit the region to shop at the upscale Somerset Collection mall in Troy and Great Lakes Crossing outlet mall in Auburn Hills.
The city's Greektown is a popular entertainment district. Other attractions include MGM Grand Detroit, Motor City Casino, Greektown Casino, and Caesars Windsor just across the river in Canada. Since 2000, the city has seen continuous annual increases in tax revenues from its casinos with the city estimated to collect $178,250,000 in casino taxes alone for 2007, with the casino resorts opening in 2008.[6] The Detroit International Riverfront hosts a variety of 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.
In 2003, General Motors completed a $500 million redevelopment of the Renaissance Center as its world headquarters.[7][8] The east riverfront promenade development was planned at $559 million, including $135 million from GM and $50 million from the Kresge Fundation.[9] The International Riverfront is linked by the River Walk, a promenade along the eastern riverfront connecting the cruise ship dock on Hart Plaza to a series of parks, restaurants, retail shops, and other venues from the Marriott at the Renaissance Center to the Omni Hotel at Riverplace. Campus Martius Park hosts events such as the Motown Winter Blast in January. Detroit's proximity to Windsor, Ontario provides for spectacular views and nightlife,[10] along with Ontario's 19-and-older drinking age.[11]
The Detroit Institute of Arts in the cultural center downtown is a leading attraction. Nearby, Midtown has about 50,000 residents, yet it attracts millions of visitors each year to its museums and cultural centers; for example, the Detroit Festival of the Arts in Midtown draws about 350,000 people.[12] The Eastern Market farmer's distribution center is the largest open-air flowerbed market in the United States and has more than 150 foods and specialty businesses.[13] On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic Eastern Market.[14]
[edit] Entertainment
The metro area has many entertainment venues which include performances by major artists. The Detroit Theatre District has a vibrant array of shows and is a part of the Broadway theatre circuit. The Windsor-Detroit casino resorts have nightclubs, restaurants, and large performance centers for shows. Nightlife includes live jazz venues such as the exclusive Seldom Blues restaurant at the Renaissance Center and the Greektown entertainment district. The Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren features fine dining along with performances by Hollywood celebrities. 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. The Town Pump Tavern is a traditional Detroit pub in the theatre district near the classic Hockey Town Cafe on Woodward.
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[15] The Detroit Theatre District is the nation's second largest in terms of seats. 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.
[edit] Events
| Major festivals and events | Details |
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| 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[16] | 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. |
[edit] Sports and outdoor activities
Detroit has been called the "city of champions." There are professional and collegiate sports venues for every season. The area has a 24,000 acre network of "metro parks" which receives about 9 million visitors annually [17] 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 Inn at St. Johns, a resort in Plymouth, has a championship golf course. There are many public golf courses including those in region's metroparks. For those who enjoy nature, 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.
[edit] Cultural Centers
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. [18] Other significant cultural centers include those in Dearborn, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe, and Ann Arbor.
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 Detoit'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. Among his other buildings, Cass Gilbert designed the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C..
[edit] Detroit Intitute of Arts
Entering the Detroit Institute of Arts' grand 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 the Diego Rivera's rare Detroit Industry Murals commissioned by Edsel Ford. The French-American architect Paul Philippe Cret designed the Detroit Institute of Arts. Cret was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon then in Paris, and went to the United States in 1903 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he settled in America, he happened to be in France at the outbreak of World War I and remained in the French army for the duration, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and made an officer in the Legion of Honor. The museum is part of the city's Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is among the largest art museums in the United States and contains vast collections with over 100 galleries spanning the globe. The museum houses the 1150 seat Detroit Film Theatre also used to showcase famous collections. The collection of American Art at the DIA is one of the most impressive, and 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. Today the collection is a strong survey of American history, with acknowledged masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts from the 18th century, 19th century, and 20th century, with contemporary American art in all media also being collected. The breadth of the collection includes a wide range of artists.
The collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts are generally encyclopedic and extensive, including ancient Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian material, as well as a wide range of Islamic, African and Asian art of all media.
[edit] Landmarks
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) at 157 Lake Shore Drive 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.
Detroit has been called a "City of Churches." The numerous churches of Metro Detroit and their exquisite architectural styles pique the interest and admiration of designers, artists, and scholars as well as tourists. Detroit's churches have embraced many roles during their existence, serving as anchors for the communites. The Gothic styled St. Joseph Church, (1873/1883), by Francis Himpler is an authentic German Catholic Parish and an important site listed in the National Register of Historic Places, noted for its architecture and stained glass. 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.
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 ornate Gothic styled St. Florian's Church (1928) at 2626 Poland Street in Hamtramck.
In the late nineteenth century, Detroit was called the Paris of the West for its architecture and open public spaces,[19] in keeping with the City Beautiful movement.[20] Architects John and Arthur Scott designed the Wayne County Building (1897) in downtown Detroit. Expense was not a factor in construction of its lavish design. 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 many unique monuments. Examples include the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (1929) and the Beaux-Arts Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate (1894) at Waterworks Park.[21] Achitects 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 exquisite James Scott Fountain.[22] 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.
[edit] Grand Circus
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 baroque styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the city's theater district.[23]
The ornate Fox Theatre (1928), by C. Howard Crane, near the city's Grand Circus is a National Historic Landmark. The renowned 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.[24]
[edit] 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 1900s as the downtown reconfigured to accommodate increased vehicular traffic. In 2004, the city restored the park with traffic circle. Hart Plaza, along the riverfront, was designed to replace Campus Martius as a focal point. Yet Hart Plaza is a primarily hard-surfaced area, many residents came to lament the lack of true park space in the city's downtown area. This led to calls to rebuild Campus Martius. Compuware World Headquarters overlooks the reconstructed traffic cicle surrounding Campus Martius Park with the historic Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument of the American Civil War by Randolph Rogers.[24]
[edit] Hospitality infrastructure
[edit] Cruise ships, hotels, and resorts
The Dock of Detroit on Hart Plaza near the Renaissance Center receives major cruise ships and tall ships.[25] 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.[26] Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor in downtown Detroit offers public docks for boaters.
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 with fine restaurants and entertainment which reflect the region's culture, traditions, architecture, and geography. Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center and the Omni Detroit Hotel at Riverplace have waterfront views. The city's historic downtown area has the restored Inn at Ferry Street, a collection of Victorian bead and breakfasts in the cultural district by the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Inn at 97 Winder Street is a bed and breakfast, restored from an 1870's Victorian mansion just two blocks from Comerica Park. The Hotel St. Regis Detroit adjacent to the Fisher Theatre in the New Center has a more stately European style and is joined via an enclosed walkway to Cadillac Place, one the center of one of the nation's largest historic restorations. The Greco-Roman contemporary Anthenium Suite Hotel bridges the Greektown entertainment district, the Detroit Theatre District, and downtown stadiums. Michigan is a leading state for golf courses; the Inn at St. Johns is a luxurious resort in the suburb of Plymouth with a championship golf course. The Westin Hotel at the contemporary Southfield Town Center is centrally located for the convenience of the metropolitan region while downtown's Westin Book-Cadillac (2008) is a restored historic flagship hotel. The Somerset Inn in the suburb of Troy is across from an upscale shopping mall, the Somerset Collection. Dearborn is an important leg in the region's tourism economy. The historic Dearborn Inn Marriott, the Ritz Carleton, and the contemporary Hyatt Regency are near the region's leading tourist attraction, The Henry Ford.
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| Selected hotels and resorts | Metro Detroit location |
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| Marriott at Eagle Crest | Ann Arbor - Ypsilanti |
| Athenium Suite Hotel | Greektown - Detroit - Stadiums |
| Caesar's Windsor Casino Resort | Windsor, Ontario |
| Courtyard by Marriott Detroit | Near the Renaissance Center |
| Crown Plaza Hotel | Novi at Twelve Oaks Mall |
| Dearborn Inn Marriott | Dearborn near The Henry Ford |
| Detroit Marriott Hotel | Inside the Renaissance Center |
| Embassy Suites Hotel | Livonia |
| Fort Shelby Double Tree (2009) | Downtown Detroit |
| Greektown Casino Resort (2008) | Greektown - Detroit |
| Hilton Garden Inn | Downtown Detroit - Stadiums |
| Hotel Baronette | Novi at Twelve Oaks Mall. |
| Hotel St. Regis Detroit | Fisher Theatre - Cadillac Place. |
| Hyatt Regency Hotel | Dearborn near The Henry Ford |
| Inn at 97 Winder - Victorian B&B | Downtown Detroit - Stadiums |
| Inn at Ferry Street - Victorian B&B | Near the Detroit Institute of Arts |
| Inn at St. Johns - Resort | Plymouth |
| Livonia Marriott Hotel | Adjoins Laurel Park Place Mall. |
| MGM Grand Detroit Casino Resort | Downtown Detroit |
| Motor City Casino Resort (2008). | Downtown Detroit |
| Omni Detroit Hotel at Riverplace. | Detroit - Riverfront |
| Ritz Carleton Hotel | Dearborn near The Henry Ford. |
| Royal Park Hotel | Rochester. |
| Sheraton Detroit Novi | Near Twelve Oaks Mall |
| Sheraton Detroit Riverside Hotel | Convention Center - Riverfront |
| Somerset Inn | Troy at Somerset Collection Mall. |
| Townsend Hotel | Birmingham - Troy |
| Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel (2008) | Downtown Detroit |
| Westin Hotel - Airport | Inside Detroit Metropolitan Airport |
| Westin Southfield Detroit Hotel | Inside Southfield Town Center |
[edit] Restaurants
Detroit restaurants are steeped in the region's cultural and historic traditions. The Coach Insignia Restaurant is named for the automotive classic coach insignia from Fisher Body automotive. The Coach Insignia serves the Coach wines from the Detroit Fisher family winery in California. Near most hotels and tourist areas are restaurants. Dining is a choice of many experiences, with a mulitude of restaurants in Greektown, downtown, the Renaissance Center, Somerset Collection mall, Grosse Pointe, and the suburbs.
| Selected restaurants | Metro Detroit location |
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| American Coney Island (hotdogs and chili) | Detroit |
| Andiamo Italia (ten locations) - Celebrity Showroom | Warren |
| Bates Hamburgers | Livonia |
| Benito's Pizza (19 locations) | Royal Oak |
| Carl's Chop House | Detroit |
| Cheli's Chili Bar | Detroit |
| Coach Insignia Restaurant | Top of the Renaissance Center |
| Cuisine Restaurant (French) | Detroit (behind the Fisher Theatre) |
| Detroiter Bar | Beaubien |
| Detroit’s Breakfast House & Grill | Merchants Row |
| Elwood Bar & Grill | Detroit, beside Ford Field and Comerica Park. |
| Greektown restaurants | Downtown Detroit |
| Hard Rock Cafe | Campus Martius Park, Detroit. |
| The Hill - Seafood and Chop House | Grosse Pointe Farms |
| Hockeytown Cafe | Across from Comerica Park |
| Mushashi International (Japanese) | Inside the Southfield Town Center |
| Little Caesar's Pizza | Comerica Park and Metro Detroit |
| Opus One (offers sporting and theatre packages) | Detroit |
| Pizza Papalis (8 locations) | Greektown-Detroit |
| Rattlesnake Club | Detroit. |
| Roostertail (waterfront entertainment) | Detroit |
| Seldom Blues Restaurant (upscale - live jazz) | Inside the Renaissance Center |
| Tribute (upscale) | Farmington Hills |
| Vicente's Cuban Restaurant | Detroit. |
| Telway Hamburger System (Winner of WXYT 1270 "Best Slider in Detroit" 2007) |
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| Whitney House Restaurant (historic mansion) | Detroit. |
[edit] Shopping
Metro Detroit features of a number of indoor shopping venues. Many visit to shop at the upscale Somerset Collection mall in Troy with its moving skywalk concourse and the Great Lakes Crossing outlet mall in Auburn Hills. Somerset Collection remains one of several major shopping malls in the United States not owned by a real estate investment trust. 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.[27] Other important localities for the region's tourism include the college town of Ann Arbor has Briarwood Mall, while Laurel Park Place mall adjoins the Livonia Marriott. The Crowne Plaza Hotel and the Hotel Baronette are next to the Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi. The 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.[28] On Saturdays, about 45,000 people shop the city's historic Eastern Market.[29]
[edit] Transportation
Metro Detroit has an extensive freeway system. The region offers mass transit with bus services provided by the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART). Cross border service between the downtown areas of Windsor and Detroit is provided by Transit Windsor via the Tunnel Bus.[30] (See also: Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT)). An automated guideway transit system known as the People Mover provides a 2.9 mile (4.6 km) loop in the downtown area and usually operates daily. The Amtrak station is north of downtown. Amtrak provides service to Detroit, operating its Wolverine service between Chicago, Illinois, and Pontiac.
Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW), the area's principal airport, is located in nearby Romulus and is a hub for Northwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines. Bishop International Airport in Flint and Toledo Express Airport in Toledo, Ohio are other commercial passenger airports. Coleman A. Young International Airport (DET), previously called Detroit City Airport, is on Detroit's northeast side, and offers charter service.[31] Willow Run Airport in Yipsilanti is for commercial aviation.
[edit] See also
- Detroit celebrities
- Images of metropolitan Detroit
- Images of Michigan
- Polish Cathedral style
- Southeast Michigan
- 2020 Summer Olympics
- Windsor-Detroit
[edit] Notes
- ^ Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau statistics Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ Great Lakes IT Report. (May 3, 2007,).Michigan's Tourism Website No. 1 in the U.S. Retrieved on August 10, 2007.
- ^ Hour Detroit (September 2007).101 Things Every Detroiter Must Do.Hour Media. Retrieved on September 3, 2007.
- ^ America's Story, Explore the States: Michigan (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Library of Congress
- ^ State of Michigan: MI Kids (2006).Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
- ^ City of Detroit General Fund -Percent Change in major Revenue Sources. City of Detroit 2006-07 Budget
- ^ Mercer, Tenisha (October 19, 2005).GM's RenCen renovation attracts new business back. Detroit News.Retrieved on July 24, 2007.
- ^ Metropolitan Detroit renaissance benefits local tourism DEGA. Retrieved on July 24, 2007.
- ^ Detroit News Editorial (December 13, 2002). At Last, Sensible Dream for Detroit's Riverfront. Detroit News.
- ^ Belle Isle Detroit Deparment of Recreation. Retrieved on September 15, 2007. "Spectacular views."
- ^ La Canfora, Jason. Detroit's Big Party Next Door. In Windsor, Temptation Waits for Players, Fans (English). The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2 October, 2006.
- ^ Midtown Model D Media. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ History of Eastern Market. Eastern Market Mechant's Association. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ Eastern MarketModel D Media. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ DTE Energy Music Theatre Listed as 2004 Top Attended Amphitheatre (1/25/05). DTE Energy Music Theatre.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Huron Clinton Metro Parks Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ Midtown Model D Media Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- ^ Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit: 1701-2001. Wayne State University Press.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Chauncey Hurlbut Memorial Gate Detroit 1701.org (accessed 03-31-2007).
- ^ James Scott Fountain Detroit 1701.org (accessed 03-31-2007).
- ^ Vivian M. Baulch. Woodward Avenue, Detroit's Grand old "Main Street" Rearview Mirror, The Detroit News (accessed 03-31-2007).
- ^ a b Zacharias, Pat (compiled). Monuments of Detroit Rearview Mirror, Detroit News. Retrieved on June 14, 2007.
- ^ Runk, David, Associated Press (July 11, 2006).Great Lakes cruises offer majestic views USA Today. Retrieved on May 29, 2007.
- ^ Great Lakes Cruising Coalition Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
- ^ Groover, Joel (June 1, 2004). Privacy Please. Retail Traffic Penton Media. Retrieved on September 3, 2007.
- ^ History of Eastern Market. Eastern Market Merchant's Association. Retrieved on August 1, 2007.
- ^ Eastern MarketModel D Media Retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- ^ Transit Windsor.. Routes and Schedules. Retrieved on Sept 25th, 2006.
- ^ Sapte, Benjamin (2003). Southwest Airlines: Route Network Development since 1971. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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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