Enjoy convenient parking, transportation and ride People Mover for free during 2025 Auto Show
Individuals attending the 2025 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) at Huntington Place will find convenient, accessible parking and transportation in downtown Detroit. In addition, the City of Detroit also announced street closings and traffic restrictions during the Auto Show Charity Preview on Friday, Jan. 10.
TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS Beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10 and continuing through the evening, the City will begin restricting traffic on streets around Huntington Place, including Washington Blvd., Atwater, Shelby, Bates, Congress, Fort, Griswold, Cass and westbound Jefferson.
The Michigan Department of Transportation will close the Larned exit via the southbound Lodge (US-10) at 4 p.m.
Traffic restrictions will be lifted after 11 p.m.
PEOPLE MOVER Individuals can park at a City parking facility, private garage/lot or street parking meter close to a People Mover station and ride for free to the Huntington Place station.
The People Mover hours during the Auto Show are: Monday - Friday from 6:30 a.m. – midnight Saturday & Sunday from 8 a.m. – midnight
QLINE Individuals also may park anywhere along the Woodward corridor between New Center and downtown and ride the QLine for free and get dropped off two blocks from Huntington Place.
Mayor Duggan celebrated his final North American International Auto Show as mayor with a preview tour of the exhibits at the Huntington Place this week.
The 2025 Auto Show goes from Jan. 10 - 20, and features more than 30 different brands, along with four tracks and interactive exhibits. Learn more at DetroitAutoShow.com.
Mayor announces Houston-Whittier/Hayes and Greenfield Park as Phase 2 solar neighborhoods
Mayor Duggan smiles as Houston Whittier/Hayes resident Sandra Turner Handy recalls her persistence in seeking to make her neighborhood one of Detroit's five solar areas.
Two eastside neighborhoods – Houston Whittier/Hayes and Greenfield Park/I-75/McNichols – were selected through a competitive process as the next two solar neighborhoods, Mayor Duggan announced this week.
The addition of the two neighborhoods would create another 61 acres of solar arrays. When added to the 104 acres in phase one, the total number of acres in the Mayor’s solar neighborhoods initiative stands at 165.
The initiative will take vacant, blighted land and put it to use generating enough clean energy to power 127 City buildings as part of the City’s efforts to address climate change. These include all police and fire stations, transit centers, administrative buildings, recreation centers, health clinics, City Airport and more.
Houston Whittier/Hayes and Greenfield Park were selected from five remaining finalists after Gratiot-Findlay, Van Dyke-Lynch and State Fair were selected as the first three solar neighborhoods in phase one.
In December, the Mayor announced that all phase one neighborhoods had signed their agreements with developers and approved final landscape designs that include decorative fencing, ornamental trees and perennials, along with flower meadows and/or urban agriculture within their solar arrays.
Biden administration awards Detroit $346M in HUD funds to address flooding, affordable housing
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) officials presented the City of Detroit with a ceremonial check for $346.8 million in disaster recovery funds this week to help Detroit become more resilient to floods and basement backups.
Mayor Duggan joined federal and local leaders for the check presentation and discussed priorities for how the City will use the influx of federal funds to protect residents.
The HUD Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding is tied to the flooding Detroit and other communities experienced in August 2023.
From August 24-26 in 2023, Detroit and surrounding communities experienced severe storms, resulting in up to five inches of rain in a six-hour period, which exceeded the design capacity of the public regional sewer system.
The City of Detroit has up to 120 days to create an action plan to determine how specifically the funds will be used. As part of that, the City will host community engagement events to collect feedback from residents. Updates on the action plan, as well as other housing resources, can be found here.
In Detroit, Right to Counsel helps people who are facing eviction. This law gives eligible low-income renters or tenants the right to have a lawyer for free to represent them in court.
The Office of Eviction Defense works with local legal services to make sure that tenants going to the 36th District Court for eviction cases can get free legal help and protect their rights.
It doesn't matter where residents come from, or their national origin – everyone qualifies for these services based on income. Detroit residents can get help before they go to court by calling the Detroit Housing Helpline at 866-313-2520 or online at MichiganLegalHelp.org.
Detroit at Work provides information on in-demand careers and training programs for jobs in growing career sectors in healthcare, information technology, manufacturing, construction and transportation, energy and utilities, and small business.
Detroit partnerships result in historic drop in violent crime in 2024; fewest homicides since 1965
Violent crime in 2024 in Detroit continued to plummet at historic rates. Detroit ended the year with 203 criminal homicides, a 19-percent drop from 2023, and its fewest homicides since 1965.
Preliminary 2024 numbers also show Detroit ended the year with 606 non-fatal shootings – a 25-percent drop from the previous year and a stunning 48-percent drop from just two years ago.
Carjackings saw a 15-percent decline in 2024, capping an incredible 71-percent reduction since 2015 when Project Green Light began.
Detroit's overall crime showed a reduction in all major categories, including a seven percent drop in overall violent crime and a four percent drop in property crime.
Detroit Fire Department kicks off Safety Series, webinars to help keep residents safe
The Detroit Fire Department’s Community Relations Division is launching a series of webinars to help educate the public on fire prevention and safety to help keep residents safe.
The educational series kicked off this week, and the next webinar event is on February 12.
Community Relations Chief James Harris will moderate the webinars, and the hosts, who are subject matter experts, will vary from month to month. During the webinars, residents will have the opportunity to ask questions of the team in real time.
