Downtown Detroit Draws A New Crowd

Crews have begun building an AC Hotel at 3680 Brighton Blvd., next to the Rev360 office building. The hotel will be seven stories and have 128 guestrooms, according to the project’s site development plan, which also shows about 2,500 square feet of restaurant space on the first floor. The hotel is being developed by RiNo36 LLC, which bought the 0.43-acre property — formerly home to an auto repair shop — in February 2020 for $4 million, records show. Lance Sigmon, of Albuquerque-based Allen Sigmon Real Estate Group, said the development team is made up of his firm, Alliance Investments, Hamant Patel’s Lotus Hotels and Prakash Sundaram’s TMS Management. This is the first Colorado hotel for Allen Sigmon, which lists four in New Mexico on the portfolio section of its website.

Kent Dawson is planting roots in Congress Park with a new restaurant. The 51-year-old is opening Briar Patch at 1222 Madison St. It’ll serve beer exclusively from Briar Common Brewery + Eatery, the Jefferson Park brewpub he’s run with his brother for nearly a decade. “This will be similar but different,” Dawson said.

The RedNote app is surging with dark humor memes. Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA Chinese app known as RedNote is surging in new users from the US. I downloaded it and found users posting gleefully about giving away their data to China. The frenzy around RedNote might be short-lived, however.

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Finnish Coast Guard vessels surround the suspected Russian "shadow fleet" tanker Eagle S near the coast of Finland in January 2025. Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva / AFPRussia is accused of using aging tankers to damage undersea cables. Analysts say it gives the cover of plausible deniability. But it's a method that also comes with risks.