The idea of making downtown hum with "pop-up" stores, restaurants, marketplaces and other temporary installations is apparently about to pop up in a big way itself, reports Louis Aguilar in The Detroit News.
Some 400 downtown leaders will hear the details of a large-scale "retail and place-making strategy" Thursday afternoon at the City Theatre. The plans have been seven months in the making and will target Campus Martius, Cadillac Square, Capitol Park, Grand Circus Park and the Woodward corridor.
Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert is behind the effort, along with the Downtown Detroit Partnership, the city government and the quasi-public Detroit Economic Growth Corp. The organizers are tight-lipped about the details, but New York consultant Fred Kent described the scale and possible activity that's planned.
