Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, chats with Dan Gilbert, founder/chairman of Quicken Loans, Inc., Rock Ventures, LLC, and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, about the future of Detroit.

Detroit has one of the worst jobs-per-capita rates among big cities, a struggle since the large manufacturing plants that were spread across the city closed long ago. That fact is something that TechTown Detroit, a nonprofit created to help grow small businesses and jobs, is trying to change.

Asia Newson is the co-founder and CEO of Super Business Girl, a company she runs with her parents.

This luncheon offered regional businesses the opportunity to learn more about Gov. Whitmer's budget proposal and vision of collaborating with the business community to accomplish her priorities for Michigan and its citizens.

Christy McDonald talks with Business Leaders for Michigan President & CEO Doug Rothwell about Michigan's economic future.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon discusses working with local government, unions and small business to rebuild Detroit.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett speaks with Quicken Loans CEO Dan Gilbert at Detroit Homecoming, produced by Crain?s, which is bringing more than 150 former Detroiters back home to discuss investment, philanthropy and re-engaging with their hometown.

Once America's hub of manufacturing and music, Detroit's economy and population began to steadily decline in the 1950s, eventually leading to a full bankruptcy in 2013. Six years later, construction is booming throughout the city and unique businesses are fuelling an economic revival

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An incredibly well produced documentary of the famous Detroit department store chain from its beginning. It appears that it was produced as an internal training film but is rich with historic scenes of Detroit and interesting little known facts about the city.

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In the once-thriving city of Detroit, we start to dig underneath the decay of the automobile industry and discover a well rich in art and culture cultivating underneath. Just as the wheel is the symbol of Detroit's past the cyclic shape of it reminds us that life repeats itself and has potential for rebirth.

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Detroit. A city the whole world seems to have given up on, with an art museum any city in the world would be proud to call their own. In this new documentary, Dir. Graham Beal and the DIA staff, while struggling to make the Detroit Institute of Arts relevant

Life in Osborn is the story of hope for one of Detroit?s most-blighted neighborhoods. Chronicling the efforts of the Detroit-based non-profit Life Remodeled to make a sustainable difference in the northeast Detroit community that once was the most violent ZIP Code in the United States

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Soul Skate 2018

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Soul Skate is the roller disco that?s central to Detroit?s cultural legacy. This new documentary from Carhartt WIP, NTS and Dazed takes a look inside the world of the iconic bi-annual party.

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Strengthening the basic unity of this community is still a work in progress... 50 years later. But there's important work being done in our city.

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Reviving Detroit looks at how the city went from the richest in the U.S. to the most poverty stricken. Detroit?s population is at nearly a quarter of what it was at its peak, and despite a recent wave of gentrification, the city is still struggling with rampant crime, a failing school system and swaths of vacant land.

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