Downtown Detroit and its delights

Detroit was granted $750,000 by the corporate leadership group Detroit Renaissance to sell itself. The grant will go toward the usual suspects restaurants, shops, and attractions, but a portion will trickle its way down to spruce up brochures, maps, and websites. This grant will cover the city for three years.


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Ann Lang, president of the partnership, said downtown is cleaner and offers more attractions today than at any time in many years, and the new marketing effort is an attempt to spread the word further.

"I think we have incredibly strong entertainment, cultural and sports venues," she said last week. "We have a growing residential population. And we have an image that improves itself by every person who comes here."

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