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Frank Nelson Cole’s Three Years of Sundays
Posted on December 10, 2012 | 1 CommentI read this book a couple years ago, a great read, I would suggest anybody that happily considers themselves a geek, a nerd, or similar, to pick up a copy. It was called “ -
Freshwater: Using Enthusiasm to Source Startup Talent for Public Transit
Posted on November 19, 2012 | 4 Comments“Scheduling? The word is music to my ears. Who else thinks “fun” when they hear “scheduling”? Raise your hands!” Neil Greenberg squints into the standing-room only audience of the Elizabeth Theater on the second floor of Park Bar, the venue for the first CONNECTION meeting of Freshwater Transit. Indeed a few cautious hands go up, outing their owners’ passion for scheduling and fellow transit-nerdiness. Greenberg launches into another salvo on the nitty-gritty of transit planning and operations and the crowd begins to relax. He’s gregarious, jokey, the avatar of that overzealous high-school math teacher who doesn’t just want you to learn... -
Pop Goes Detroit
Posted on October 30, 2012 | No CommentsIf you told me two months ago that I’d be writing my next Grow post from an improvised desk in my pop-up fashion shop in West Village, I’d probably respond with something along the lines of, “Um, what?” But that’s exactly where I found myself this morning. The shop is called PRAMU (Pataphysical Research and Metachanics Union) and we opened a few weeks ago with the start of the Tashmoo Biergarten‘s Fall season. It has been a wonderfully hectic month working on this project with the incomparable Dylan Box, a partner in the design firm Wedge Detroit, and I wanted... -
A Modest Proposal to Let People Park in Downtown Detroit
Posted on September 5, 2012 | 1 CommentLet me start by saying that I live in Downtown Detroit by choice. I happen to like it. So when I occasionally complain to friends that some element of the whole Downtown situation is not quite up to snuff, I am sometimes rebuffed with the observation that I have made my own bed. That’s not really fair. Wherever you go there are ups and downs. Downtown Detroit certainly has a lot of strong points. But parking one’s car happens not to be one of them. I frequently come out of my apartment building on Broadway Street near the Detroit Opera...