Detroit's soccer club is building the city's only privately financed stadium. AlumniFi Field, rising at 2401 20th Street on the former Southwest Detroit Hospital site between Corktown and Mexicantown, will be the 15,000-seat home of Detroit City FC - the supporter-built USL Championship club whose famous Northern Guard faithful have packed Hamtramck's Keyworth Stadium since 2016. The club bought the abandoned hospital land in 2024, tapped stadium specialists HOK for the design and Barton Malow t.....

Detroit gave its Queen of Soul the city's most beautiful stage. The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre at 2600 Atwater Street - The Aretha, to the city - sits directly on the Detroit River a mile and a half east of downtown, its stage backed by the international waterway and the Canadian shore beyond, a setting that puts it on lists of the world's top hundred concert venues. Boaters famously raft up along the seawall to catch shows for free. The venue opened in 1984 as Chene Park, the first phase of .....

Detroit's ballpark came with a Ferris wheel, a tiger carousel and the skyline for a backdrop. Comerica Park at 2100 Woodward Avenue opened on 11 April 2000 - a 36-degree, snow-dusted afternoon on which the Tigers beat Seattle 5-2 - ending 88 seasons at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, where Tiger Stadium had stood since 1912. The 300-million-dollar, HOK-designed park rose on the old Detroit College of Law site as the anchor of a downtown revitalisation plan that also produced Ford Field next.....

Luciano Pavarotti kept a promise on 21 April 1996: he had told impresario David DiChiera he would open Detroit's opera house, and he sang its reopening gala in a movie palace that had been left for dead a decade earlier. The Detroit Opera House at 1526 Broadway, on Grand Circus Park downtown, opened on 22 January 1922 as the Capitol Theatre, designed by C. Howard Crane - the architect behind the Fox Theatre, The Fillmore and the acoustically famed Orchestra Hall. At its premiere the 3,500-seat I.....

The New York Times called it "a promising new spot in Mexicantown" within months of opening, and Rolling Stone later ranked it among the ten best live music venues in America - not bad for a converted community hall on Vernor Highway. El Club at 4114 West Vernor Highway in Southwest Detroit opened in May 2016 inside the former Mexicantown Fiesta Center, a 4,800-square-foot space near Clark Park that owner Graeme Flegenheimer rebuilt with a proper stage, serious sound and an all-ages door policy......

An entire 1920s department-store warehouse forms one wall of the stadium - the Lions literally play football against a building where Hudson's once stored furniture. Ford Field, at 2000 Brush Street in downtown Detroit, opened in 2002 as the NFL franchise's return to the city after 27 years in the Pontiac Silverdome, a 500-million-dollar domed stadium that made adaptive reuse its signature. SmithGroup's design sank the field 45 feet below street level and folded the six-storey Hudson's warehous.....

A six-storey lobby lined with vermillion columns, glass jewels and a colossal chandelier - hidden for decades under grime until a 12-million-dollar restoration pulled back the curtain in 1988. The Fox Theatre at 2211 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit opened on 21 September 1928 as film mogul William Fox's flagship: at more than 5,000 seats, the largest theatre in the city and today the largest surviving movie palace of the 1920s anywhere. C. Howard Crane designed it in an "exotic" style all i.....

Techno in a former parts plant, beside a sculpture park built from salvage: it could only be Detroit. Lincoln Factory, at 5145 Lincoln Street in the city's North End near the New Center, is the warehouse event space that grew out of the Lincoln Street Art Park ecosystem - a raw industrial hall that flexes from underground dance marathons to weddings. The site's backstory is Detroit's in miniature: the block's industrial buildings served the automotive supply chain before falling quiet, and the .....

Detroit put both of its winter franchises under one roof and sank the bowl below street level to do it: the ice sits 40 feet down, and the gondola seating hangs from the rafters. Little Caesars Arena, at 2645 Woodward Avenue in the District Detroit, opened on 5 September 2017 as the 863-million-dollar home of the Red Wings and Pistons. The building ended two eras at once: the Red Wings left Joe Louis Arena after 38 years, and the Pistons returned to the city from the suburban Palace of Auburn H.....

They tore out eight bowling lanes, rolled in ten pool tables, and accidentally built the room where Detroit's garage rock revolution staged itself. The Magic Stick, on the second floor of the Majestic Theatre Center at 4120 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, opened in 1992 above America's oldest operating bowling alley. The complex is a family century: the Zainea family - in the building since buying the 1913 Garden Bowl - assembled a full city block of entertainment, buying the neighbouring 1.....