Detroit Properties News

foolish trivia (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
I'm a large media and education company, founded in 1877. Along with the flagship newspaper that bears my name, my properties include Newsweek magazine, Slate.com, BudgetTravel.com, Sprig.com, CourseAdvisor, television stations in Detroit, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Jacksonville, and the Cable ONE cable television system. I also own Kaplan, which helps students prepare for a ...

Fire kills one resident of Detroit-area senior complex (Ionia Sentinel-Standard)
DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. said Friday it would sell and lease back some of its non-manufacturing operations in Europe as part of its efforts to raise cash quickly.

Saginaw Township leaders look to brand State Street (The Saginaw News)
Saginaw has the neon Bean Bunny. Frankenmuth has the glockenspiel. And Detroit has the Renaissance Center. So what do you think of when you think of State Street in Saginaw Township? That's what the Recreate State Committee pondered ... and...

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General Motors (GM) has said it is looking to sell and lease back some of its properties around the world to raise desperately needed funds. The move comes as the US car giant, along with Chrysler and Ford, thrashes out restructuring plans to send to Congress to get a $25bn (£16.3bn) loan.

Cash-strapped GM mulls asset sale (BBC News)
General Motors says it is looking to sell and lease back some of its properties around the world to raise cash.

Weekend sales are merry (Detroit News)
A strong Black Friday showing could be a Christmas miracle for retailers who feared the worst this holiday season.

Web site offers comprehensive look at apartments for rent (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – Kevin Chang has developed a new way to find apartments on the Web, using University of Illinois research into how to conduct "deeper" Web searches. The result is Cazoodle, a Web site that provides comprehensive listings of apartments in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas – including Champaign-Urbana.

imagine (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
I wish I had $5 for every time last week one of the power players in the Automotive-Industrial Complex, caught up in the whirlwind of Detroit’s potential demise, said this: "Ed, I want to make myself perfectly clear. I am a free-market capitalist — but this situation with Detroit is something completely different." There’s nothing more telling about the duality of man than that line; it ...