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Guests of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Meldrum Community Center — many of whom are experiencing homelessness, mental illness and addiction — will be seated and served a starter course, an entrée, dessert and coffee. The tables, intentionally rectangular to foster conversation, will be cleared by volunteers in between. Murals will color the building’s walls. The goal? Dignified hospitality. It’s all part of the Meldrum Community Center’s $2.4 million renovation into Refettorio Detroit. In a few months, Detroit will join 12 other locations across the globe with a Refettorio, including Harlem and San Francisco.

“None of us are just walking stomachs and neither are our guests. They have hearts and they have brains and hopefully some of the art, the culture, will also feed those spirits as well,” said Gary Wegner, executive director of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, in an interview with the Free Press ahead of a media tour of the facility currently under construction.

The project is a partnership with Food for Soul, a global nonprofit founded by Italian chef Massimo Bottura and his wife, Lara Gilmore, to reduce food waste and social isolation. Refettorio is Italian for refectory or dining hall. The idea is to turn surplus ingredients into meals, shared in community. The 8,000-square-foot Detroit “dining room” — designed and built, respectively, by Michigan-based Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/Planning and the Ferlito Group — broke ground in the spring and construction is slated to wrap up in January. Wegner projected a tentative community open house for early February.

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In July, Frontier announced it was launching eight new routes previously operated by Spirit. Three of those routes include daily service from Detroit to Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia and Las Vegas.

“Frontier has made it known that they’re likely to pick up some additional gate capacity in Detroit, and they have already announced certain flights, some of which Spirit used to fly,” Jason Miller, chief investment officer at Grand Sakwa Properties, previously told Crain’s. “So they will probably be the airline that grows the most in Detroit relative to others.”

Frontier’s new nonstop service to New York will begin Nov. 20 with daily flights during peak holiday periods and three times per week for other periods. Prices for the flights begin at $69.

With the addition of the new LaGuardia service, Frontier will serve 15 destinations nonstop from Detroit, including 11 that were offered by Spirit before it ended its operations earlier this year.

“With this new service to New York joining the growing list of top leisure destinations offered nonstop from Detroit — including Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, Cancún, and more — we are excited to show travelers that flying can be both low cost and high value,” Flyr said.

Last November, Frontier added six new flights at DTW, connecting Detroit to Houston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Cancún, Charlotte, N.C., and New Orleans.

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>Bedrock and General Motors will be seeking tax breaks and other public subsidies worth $548 million over 30 years for their $2.2 billion Renaissance Center redevelopment, yet anticipate only a 1% return on their investment in the project.

Per MDOT:

All border crossings in Michigan will briefly close Friday, Sept. 11, in commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Traffic will be cleared before 8:46 a.m. At that time, taps will be played as the flag is raised, followed by a moment of silence at all ports of entry. Motorists should expect closures of approximately 30 minutes or less.

• Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
• Blue Water Bridge
• Gordie Howe International Bridge
• Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
• Ambassador Bridge

Plan accordingly and allow extra time if crossing the border Friday morning. Normal operations will resume immediately after the observance.

"Federal authorities on Thursday arrested the owner of La Posada — a Mexican restaurant, convenience store and money remitter business located in Southwest Detroit — alleging he was involved in laundering more than $140 million to Mexico."