Detroit

LANSING, MI-In an address Monday night, Mayor Virg Bernero exhorted critics of the downtown casino plan to examine the revenue possibilities for the capital city.

DETROIT-After Quicken Loans moved downtown last year, chairman Dan Gilbert hasn’t wasted time in his promise to invest here, buying up nine properties with redevelopment plans.

ANN ARBOR, MI-Home to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has led the Detroit area multifamily market, with two properties recently garnering more than $41 million each.

TROY, MI-The bank will lease almost 100,000 square feet in the 745,000-square-foot complex, in a city that plummeted as the top office market in Michigan. Plus more Midwest news.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-The mall owner/developer sought to buy core properties as Evanston, IL-based Davis Street cut its ownership almost in half.

DETROIT-Rock Venture’s Dan Gilbert can be labeled as Detroit’s Man of the Year, as he will close 2011 having purchased about 1.8 million square feet downtown with plans for it all.

WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI-NorthMarq Capital has secured $70 million in refinancing for the Aldingbrooke Apartments project in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

WIXOM, MI-The automaker is remaking its closed Wixom Assembly Plant into a renewable energy park, including a $237 million investment by Townsend Energy Solutions.

DETROIT-The large district is moving out of most of its leased private office space in four downtown buildings, vacating almost 100,000 square feet from Farbman Group sites.

DALLAS-The locally based Sammons Enterprises subsidiary plans to make more entry-level investments in other real estate operating companies.

DETROIT-A plan to convert the empty David Whitney Building into apartments, retail and a boutique hotel is moving forward.

HOWELL, MI-Blue Ash-based Viking Partners Fund I LLC has bought Crossroads Town Center, a shopping center comprising more than 95,600 square feet of space in Howell, Michigan, for an undisclosed price.

NEW BUFFALO, MI-The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians is building a new nine-story hotel addition and event center, and will add a 12,000-square-foot Hard Rock to this tourist area.

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI-The 375,000-square-foot Village of Rochester Hills, one of the first indoor malls transformed into an outdoor center, is still successful at 98% occupied.

DETROIT-The development group in charge of the apartment-office redo of the former office tower plans to show off some of the floor plans and views on Nov. 5.

DETROIT-Little Caesars pizza magnate Mike Ilitch is bringing on Eric Larson, CEO of Larson Realty Group, as a consultant to head development plans for the company’s downtown property.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI-The mall REIT said in a third quarter conference call Friday that it is working on a handful of new developments in the United States and China.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI-General Growth turned the 590,000-square-foot mall in this tourist town back to its lender earlier this year.

CHICAGO-The mega-firm’s chief diversity officer talks with GlobeSt.com’s Robert Carr about how women and minorities are faring in the commercial real estate workforce.

KALAMAZOO, MI-Plans for the 35 acres of an old portion of Western Michigan University include possibilities such as a boutique hotel, conference center, apartments and condos.