431 E Congress St
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 961-6923
During the week, it's a corner bar with locals hanging out and great lunch specials including "Best Burger Downtown". Then at night there is a man singing drinking songs on stage. On the weekends all three floors open up with a DJ on the first floor, Irish band on the second floor and a great view of the city on the rooftop deck, which is fully finished and heated for cold weather. During the summer, after Saturday home Tiger games, the parking lot becomes the largest dance floor in the city. Always a COMPLEMENTARY shuttle to downtown events, games, concerts etc. NO DRESS CODE.
This Art Deco masterpiece of a martini bar, in the historic Iodent building. With its great cocktail list & Menu. Located directly behind the Fox Theatre in the heart of Detroit’s Sports and Entertainment Districts, Kitchen is open 7 days till 2a. (Behind the FOX)
Firebird Tavern is an authentic American tavern in the heart of Detroit's Greektown district that offers city residents, visitors and workers a lively and inviting place to meet, dine and drink. Located steps away from Greektown Casino and notable icons like Fishbone's and Old Shillelagh, Firebird Tavern is resurrecting food, drink and fun in a historic 1880's building. Featuring 40+ beers, a reimagined cocktail list, hand-selected wines and bubbles, along with a curated menu focusing on shared plates, fresh salads, sandwiches and burgers, Firebird Tavern is your destination for lunch, happy hour, dinner, and pre/post event gatherings. Come party with us on the weekends on our second floor as local DJ's spin dance music in a truly one-of-a-kind atmosphere. Private event space available for corporations, meetings, parties and groups from 5-200 people. Firebird Tavern can also cater your next event.
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Detroit's newest hot spot 21 years of age in older Two Bottle Liquor Minimum buy out for Booth Reservation (Size Liter)
Paris is downtown Detroit's newest niteclub catering to the LGBTQ community. We are open and welcoming to everyone, providing a safe space regardless of your identity, in the heart of the city! We offer well-curated programming on different nights, great drinks including craft cocktails and an upscale environment that is comfortable and inviting!
Designed with you in mind, Cream delivers the best club experience in Michigan. Cream has an underground aesthetic, set within a classic venue featuring a stunning sound system! As always, the crowd is beautiful. Trust! Cream is you, you are Cream. Just let it drip!
The Lawyers Building is an office building located at 137 Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the American Title Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.HistoryThe Lawyers Building was built in 1922, the first building erected by John J. Barlum and his family in their rebuilding of the Cadillac Square area. The building originally catered to middle class level tenants, including many unions and benevolent organizations.DescriptionThe Lawyers Building was designed in the Chicago School architectural style, and is constructed of reinforced concrete and steel faced with terra cotta. It stands at 10 floors in height, featuring regular bays with grouped wood casement windows with metal spandrel panels. It was one of the few office buildings of the time that strove for modernism over ornamentation. It is currently the finest nearly unaltered Chicago-style highrise in Detroit; the only change made to the building is the modern marble ground-level storefront.The building is located east of the larger New Cadillac Square Apartments and Cadillac Tower (both also built by Barlum), and west of Detroit City Hall, at the corner of Cadillac Square, and Randolph Avenue. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The Atheneum Suite Hotel is a luxury all-suite boutique hotel located in the Greektown Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The hotel is near the Comerica Park and Ford Field stadiums. In addition, the hotel can accommodate conferences for up to 1,000 people with its 26000sqft of meeting space. The hotel architecture is a Greek themed Modern style. The hotel restaurants include Fishbone's Rhythm Cafe, Mosaic, Pegasus Taverna, and Pappy's Sport's Bar and Grill.
The Renaissance City Apartments is an upscale residential skyscraper located at 555 Brush Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is one of Detroit's tallest residential buildings, standing at 33 floors. It was constructed in 1985 in the Modern architectural style adjacent to the similarly designed Courtyard by Marriott – Downtown Detroit.The residential apartments are connected by elevated enclosed skyways to the Renaissance Center, the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Detroit, and to the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. The high-rise apartments also contain a large parking garage. It was originally named after Robert L. Millender, Sr., an attorney, political activist and campaign manager for Mayor Coleman Young. He encouraged and supported the candidacy of many in the African-American political community. They include former Michigan Secretary of State Richard H. Austin, Congressman John Conyers, several City of Detroit Council members, local judges, and several Wayne County Commissioners. In recognition of the historic contributions Robert Millender made to the City of Detroit, this building was dedicated to in his memory in the 1980s. The Center complex includes an Office Center, the Courtyard by Marriott, the 33-story Renaissance City Apartments complex and a parking facility. Transportation is provided by the Detroit People Mover which has a station at the facility.
The Detroit People Mover is a 2.94mi automated people mover system which operates on a single track, and encircles Downtown Detroit, Michigan.The Woodward Avenue Light Rail line, later officially named the "Qline", beginning construction in late July 2014, will serve as a link between the Detroit People Mover and New Center Amtrak station with its current service and proposed SEMCOG Commuter Rail, plus additional access to DDOT and SMART bus routes as part of a comprehensive network of transportation in metropolitan Detroit.The People Mover uses UTDC ICTS Mark I technology and the cars are driverless. A siding allows the system to be used in a two-way bypass manner when part of the circular track is closed.HistoryThe Detroit People Mover has its origins in 1966, with Congressional creation of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) to develop new types of transit. In 1975, following the failure to produce any large-scale results and increased pressure to show results, UMTA created the Downtown People Mover Program (DPM) and sponsored a nationwide competition that offered federal funds to cover much of the cost of planning and construction of such a system. UMTA reviewed thirty-five full proposals. From these, they selected proposals from Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and St. Paul. In addition, UMTA decided they would approve proposals from Baltimore, Detroit, and Miami to develop People Mover systems if they could do so with existing grant commitments. Of the seven cities with UMTA approval for their People Mover proposals, only Detroit and Miami persevered to build and operate systems.
The Detroit Cornice and Slate Company Building is a Beaux-Arts style industrial office building located at 733 St. Antoine Street (at East Lafayette Street) in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.HistoryThe Detroit Cornice and Slate Company was started by Frank Hesse in 1888. In 1897, the company hired Harry J. Rill to design a Beaux-Arts three-story building for their use. The building was used by the company until 1972, when lack of storage and parking space forced the company to relocate in Ferndale. In 1974, the building was renovated for office and commercial use by architect Bill Kessler. In the 1990s, the Metro Times newspaper moved into the building; a wraparound addition was constructed to increase room for the newspaper. In 1999 William Kessler and Associates restored and made an addition to the building.In July 2013 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was finalizing the purchase of the Cornice and Slate Company Building, which had the Metro Times and Paxahau, an event production and management company that produces the Movement Electronic Music Festival. The Cornice and Slate building is adjacent to the BCBS Bricktown customer service facility. The acquisition of the Cornice and Slate building would add additional space to BCBS's Greektown facility. The ground floor lease to the Flood's Bar & Grille would be maintained while the Cornice and Slate second and third floors would be used as office space for about 100 BCBS employees. This means that the other tenants would be expected to move out of the building. Helen Stojic, director of corporate communications for BCBS, did not state the sale price of the building. BCBS was expected to close on the purchase in August 2013.
Saints Peter and Paul Church is a Roman Catholic church located at 629 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest existing church in the city of Detroit, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971.HistoryIn 1844, Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, who served as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Detroit, began construction on Saints Peter and Paul Church; the cornerstone is dated June 29, 1844. Francis Letourneau drew the plans, and Peter Kindenkens supervised the construction. Construction was completed over four years, as the bishop paid for each stage of construction with cash. The church was consecrated on June 29, 1848 and Bishop Lefevere used the church as his cathedral until his death in 1869. The original parishioners were predominantly Irish, with some French families attending.Following Lefevere's death, Caspar Borgess, the second Bishop of Detroit, used the church as his cathedral until 1877, when he gave the title to the building to the Jesuit Order with the intention of starting Detroit's first Catholic college. The Jesuit college eventually became the University of Detroit-Mercy, and UDM's law school still occupies the building adjacent to the church.The church was altered in 1879 and 1882, completely renovated in 1892, and remodeled again in 1911. A chapel was added to the rear of the building in 1918. Although these alterations changed the look of the church, the original plan has been substantially preserved. The church is still in use, offering daily masses.
Renaissance Center is a Detroit People Mover station in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is located at the northeast corner of the Renaissance Center complex (whence the station takes its name), connected to Tower 200 (Northwest) at Level 2 alongside Jefferson Avenue. As it serves RenCen, the station serves the Marriott Hotel, General Motors headquarters, the Riverfront and the Wintergarden shopping center. In 2014, this stop was the second most heavily trafficked (behind only Greektown) with 487,758 riders.
Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders will be focused on the radiant Motor City New Year's Eve D as it makes its descent starting at 11:59 p.m. December 31 in Detroit’s Cadillac Square. Voices will unite to count down the final seconds of the year and celebrate a new beginning full of hope, dreams and new aspirations. Now in its fifth year, the annual Motor City New Year’s Eve (NYE) event – The Drop – will be hosted from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. in Campus Martius, with an expanded footprint encompassing Cadillac Square. The free community event is loaded with fun outdoor activities for children and adults. At the heart of the event will be a unique Detroit-themed ball drop. Handmade in Detroit by the Nordin Brothers, this glittering starburst sculpture, emblazoned with a D, will descend twice during the event – once for a Kids’ Drop at 6:30 p.m., and again for the official drop at 11:59 p.m. The breathtaking spectacle, visible from various venues throughout Detroit, will reach a much broader audience this year. WTVS PBS Detroit will broadcast the Motor City NYE countdown live (please check local listings). Guests can enjoy a plethora of activities starting at 4 p.m. Bundle up and delight in live music, warm food, cold refreshments and cocktails (21+) prepared by local food trucks and restaurants. Ice skate in Campus Martius or gather around wood-burning warming stations positioned throughout the event. Feeling romantic? Carriage rides will be available for scenic tours of the City for a fee. Motor City NYE will present an inclusive Kids Zone featuring family friendly acts from 4-7 p.m. Cirque Amongus, comedian and illusionist Mark Maze, and Crossroads, a family band that performs music appealing to all ages will engage and entertain. Gracie the Clown and King Arthur the clown will provide face painting and balloon animal making. The family fun concludes just after the Kids’ Drop at 6:30 p.m. Multi-media Host and Entertainer Ashley Elyse will emcee Motor City NYE from the main stage. The adult fun begins when Party band Cast Iron Cornbread takes the stage at 7:00 p.m. and again at 8:15 p.m. DJ Tom, Detroit dance scene legend, will keep the crowd jumping with performances throughout the evening. Detroit songstresses Angela Davis and Tosha Owens will appear both on the main stage and second stage – lighting up the evening with soulful sounds and R&B classics. Don’t miss Ayla Stackhouse, who has appeared on Broadway and American Idol, when she performs “Light Up Detroit,” an original song that officially kicks off the much anticipated countdown to midnight. New this year, take shelter inside a massive heated tent raised in the Center of Cadillac Square. A second stage here will feature DJ Escalade, singers Mark Reitenga, Davis, Owens, and Top 40 band Priceless Live who will keep the party hopping all night. For more information on Motor City NYE, The Drop, please visit www.MotorCityNYE.com or call 313-355-0413. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MCNYE, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/motorcitynye. Please use hashtag #mcnye2015.
The Bagley Memorial Fountain is a historic fountain in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It has recently been moved from its long-time location in Campus Martius Park to a new location in just down the street in Cadillac Square Park. The fountain was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971. The John N. Bagley House (1889) at 2921 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit was constructed for Governor Bagley's son, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.John J. BagleyJohn J. Bagley was the 16th governor of Michigan, serving from 1873 to 1877. Bagley also served as a Detroit Alderman from 1860–61 and as Police Commissioner from 1865-72. He was instrumental in the creation of the Detroit Metropolitan Police Commission and the construction of the first Detroit House of Corrections. When Bagley died in 1881, his will contained $5,000 for the construction of a drinking fountain for the people of Detroit, having "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."FountainIn 1885, the Bagley family chose Henry Hobson Richardson to design the fountain. In 1887, the Bagley Memorial Fountain was dedicated at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Fort Street. Richardson constructed the fountain entirely out of pink Bragville granite, modeled after a ciborium located in St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. The Bagley Memorial Fountain stands 21 feet high with a basin 7 feet across. At the center of the fountain, four lion heads distribute water. In the original design, two of the heads produced "normal" temperature water and the other two produced cold water, chilled by ice packed around the fountain pipes. The inscription on the four sides of the cornice reads: TESTAMENTARY GIFT | FOR THE PEOPLE FROM | JOHN JVDSON BAGLEY | A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII.
One Woodward Avenue, formerly known as the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building, is a class-A office skyscraper in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. Located next to the city's Civic Center and Financial District, it overlooks the International Riverfront and was designed to blend with the City-County Building across Woodward Avenue, Cobo Center, and the former Ford Auditorium to the south.HistoryMinoru Yamasaki designed the new headquarters for the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company in 1962. The Michigan Consolidated Gas Building was his first skyscraper, and he used elements from this design for the now-destroyed World Trade Center in New York City. His design for McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University is also highly regarded by architects.In the 1980s, the building became the American Natural Resources Building when that company was formed as the parent of Michigan Consolidated Gas. At this time, a pedestrian bridge was added over West Larned Street at the 14th floor to connect the ANR offices to Michigan Consolidated, which had relocated to the adjacent Guardian Building. When the ANR offices moved from the building in the 1990s, it was given its current name.
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The Penobscot Building is the original 13-story building of the Penobscot Block complex in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is the first Penobscot Building, and one of three buildings of the same name in the later-constructed complex. It is located at 131 West Fort Street, within the Detroit Financial District.HistoryThe Penobscot Building was designed by Donaldson and Meier in the Beaux-Arts style, and incorporates brick and stone into its materials. Construction began in 1904 and was completed in 1905. Its building was financed by prominent Detroit businessmen, including lumberman Simon J. Murphy, Sr..ArchitectureThe lower three stories of the building are faced in limestone, the middle seven in brick, and the upper three in terra cotta. The façade is divided into five bays, each with a pair of double-hung windows. Corinthian column piers front the eleventh and twelfth stories, and the original building cornice has been removed.Present dayThe present day use of the office building is primarily for retail shops and services. It is a contributing property in the Detroit Financial Historic District, and on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Metropolitan Building is a high-rise office building located on a triangular lot at 33 John R Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan, near Grand Circus Park.The building was built in 1924 and finished in 1925. It stands at 15 stories and was once occupied by shops, offices, and the facilities of jewelry manufacturers and wholesalers leading it to also be known as the "Jeweler's Building". The manufacture of luminous watch dials in the building left behind several toxic substances that have thwarted redevelopment plans. Architects Weston and Ellington designed it in a Neo-Gothic style. The exterior of the building is faced with brick, granite, and terra cotta.The Metropolitan Building closed in 1977 and current plans call for development into lofts. In March 2010, the Downtown Development Authority voted to install safety scaffolding and netting on the building to prevent parts of the facade from falling.In September 2013, the city requested bids for removal of asbestos and other hazardous materials from the building to determine if it should be demolished or restored. The property was offered to Rock Ventures, owned by developer Dan Gilbert, however the company declined to take ownership of the structure. Earlier, Bruce Schwartz of Bedrock Real Estate Services, one of Rock Ventures subsidiaries, said that part of the building could be demolished to construct a public space, lofts and offices. However, he later said the company would be open to restoring the structure.
The Lofts of Merchants Row, formerly the Frank & Seder Department Store Building, is a 41m 6-storey high-rise completed in 1891 on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The building was the tallest in the state when built, and later joined with the larger addition directly to the south in 1921. The upper part of the facade is cast iron, reputedly the last such facade in Detroit.Frank & SederRussian Jewish immigrants Isaac Seder and Jacob H. Frank started a wholesale women's wear business in the early 1900s, then switched to retail, opening a downtown Pittsburgh store in 1907. The business grew, expanding into a department store, and adding locations in New York City, Philadelphia and Detroit.The Pittsburgh Frank & Seder was expanded in 1913, but destroyed by fire in 1917 at a loss of $600,000; its replacement was completed in 1918.The first Frank & Seder Philadelphia store opened in 1915, reopened in 1925 with 250000ft2, and was joined by a 60,000ft2 branch store for women's wear in 1929. F&S built an eight-story Detroit store on Woodlawn Avenue with 180-foot frontage and financial capital of $3,000,000; "one unit" of the store opened in April 1921 while construction was apparently ongoing. An initial design called for a 12-story building, 120 by 150 feet, reinforced concrete, brick, and steel.National Department Stores acquired the Frank & Seder group of stores in 1923, including Frank & Seder, Inc. (Pittsburgh); Lewin-Nieman Co. (Pittsburgh); Fink Co. (Philadelphia); Frank A Seder Co. of Philadelphia and Frank & Seder Co. of Detroit.
The Detroit Club is a private social club located at 712 Cass Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The building was constructed in 1891 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.HistoryThe origin of the Detroit Club dates to 1882, when Detroit attorney Samuel T. Douglas and banker/broker James Campbell decided to found a club where local businessmen could meet and mingle. With an original membership of 10, they rented a house on Lafayette between Wayne and Cass, and hired a chef. They soon convinced 100 more of Detroit's citizens to join. Early members included Russell A. Alger, ex-governor of Michigan, Hugh McMillan, founder of the Michigan Telephone Company, and real estate magnate James B. Book.Within a year, the club had outgrown its first home and moved to larger quarters on Fort Street. Less than a decade later, the club hired architect Wilson Eyre to design a new building to serve as their meeting place.ArchitectureThe Detroit Club is a four-story brick and stone Romanesque Revival building. The front door is hidden within an unusual recessed archway with stairs. The club features a grill and library on the first floor, a family room on the second floor, and a main dining room with smaller meeting rooms on the third floor. The interior features fine woodwork, a wide main stair, and an enormous fireplace in the main dining hall. The original woodwork was lighter than the current version.
The David Whitney Building is a historic class-A skyscraper located at 1 Park Avenue (1550 Woodward Avenue from 1921 to 2014), on the northern edge of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Grand Circus Park Historic District. The building stands on a wedge-shaped site at the junction of Park Avenue, Woodward Avenue, and Washington Boulevard. Construction on the 19-floor structure began in 1914.
The Rosa Parks Transit Center is the main local bus station in Detroit, Michigan serving as the central hub for the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) bus system. The station was built on the site of Times Square in the west end of Downtown Detroit.DescriptionThe three-story, 25,700 square foot structure includes space for restrooms, an indoor waiting area, retail space, transit police offices, and a Detroit Police Department mini-station. The most distinguishing feature of the transit center is its soaring tensile canopy. The transit center building was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff, and the canopy by FTL Design Engineering Studio of Detroit.Besides acting as the central hub of DDOT, the station is a stop on many SMART routes which connect the city to its suburbs, the Transit Windsor Tunnel Bus, a commuter and special bus service connecting the downtowns of Detroit and Windsor, and a stop for Megabus. The Detroit People Mover's Times Square station and Michigan Avenue station are across the street from the transit center.