Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The List - Week of March 1, 2009



HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Clean investment: Bathroom makeovers make economic sense – Plainwell

Aging parks hope for stimulus money

Genesee County Land Bank looking to take over Manhattan Place – Flint

Preservation Possible: Expanded Historic Tax Credits Help Save Forest Arms – Detroit

Tiger Stadium group sends funding plan to Detroit

Michigan’s State Historic Credit Is Made Richer, More Flexible (Pg. 21)

Blaze destroys east-side firehouse – Detroit

Rickman House slated for $12.3 million renovation – Kalamazoo

555 Gallery to move – Detroit

Program to focus on lighthouse – Port Huron

Editorial: Whiting will benefit downtown – Traverse City

New Economy Initiative makes big investment in Metro Detroit

Miracle Twin closure could mean end of area drive-in movie theaters – Burton

Ford barn in Highland Township nears restoration

GUEST COLUMN: Here’s what I’d do with former psychiatric hospital property



COOL CITIES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, MAIN STRET, AND PLANNING


Cobo deal's defeat means saying good-bye to regionalism

Stimulus could bring new life to Buick City, Chevy in the Hole – Flint

Grant offers help to downtown Hillsdale owners, renters

Paying for our parks

Ann Arbor planners OK new zoning guidelines

Lansing Unveils Plans for $3.2 Million Waterfront Beautification Project

Revitalize Detroit by turning over vacant land

Wyoming asks state to rescind tax break for GM metal stamping plant

Dearborn programs target neighborhood improvement

It takes a village: why walkable urbanism is good for adolescents

Tecumseh City Council establishes Brownfield Redevelopment Authority

Vacant homes, foreclosures add to busy blight control efforts

Researchers find Lansing can build on $500 million invested in past three years

Dutch Ideas to Remake Detroit

City Council and the Values of Ann Arbor

Neighbors work to protect vacant homes




ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE, ARTS & CULTURE, AND ASSORTED ANECDOTES

Exhibit celebrating Heidelberg Project from inner city Detroit making its way to Ella Sharp Museum – Jackson

Michigan's Icy Wonderland

Around the nation: Arts feel economic impact

Turning bricks and mortar green

Sustainability in Architecture With Innovative Design Using Recycled and Green Building Materials

Tiny town of Sullivan missed by many, but not state road map

State of the arts funds

Celebrating 90 Years of Bauhaus

Stimulate the state by checking line 24 on your state tax return

Keep Michigan's creative side alive

A Paper Mill Dies and a Michigan Town Struggles – Ontonagon

Lansing's living legacy to be preserved on Web site


PLACES NOT CALLED MICHIGAN

The new Acropolis Museum to open in June – Athens, Greece

Battersea plans in turmoil – London, UK

German archive building collapses – Cologne

Historian explains area's significance – Port Clinton, OH

Today's lesson: Build a bungalow – Scotland

Lower East Side Tenement Museum honors architecture notables Gary Handel, Bradford Perkins, and Enrique Norten – New York, NY

ShowCase: Hemeroscopium House – Madrid, Spain

Hot or Not? Tall, Thin, & Available (House) in Clarendon, Virginia

The Marden House by Frank Lloyd Wright – McLean, VA

Look! Midwest Mid-Century Home – Kansas City,