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10 unusual facts about Metro Detroit


Awaji, Hyōgo

In 1999 this library and the West Bloomfield Library in West Bloomfield, Michigan in Metro Detroit were paired as sister institutions.

Jason Grilli

Jason was born in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak following his father's second season with the Tigers.

Kristy Kreher Sullivan

Raised in the Detroit metropolitan area, she attended Marian High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she was a three time all-state honoree and finished as the school's career leader in kills after she recorded 627 as a senior.

Mio, Michigan

For nearly 18 years, Mio was thrust into the local and national media spotlight due to a case involving two Detroit-area hunters that went missing in the fall of 1985.

Oakland Schools

Oakland Schools (OS) is the intermediate school district serving Oakland County, Michigan in Metro Detroit.

Pączki

In the Metro Detroit area, it is so widespread throughout the region that many bakeries have line-ups for pączki on Pączki Day.

Rio Bravo Cantina

Besides suburban Atlanta, the chain also operated in Metro Detroit including locations in Ann Arbor, MI and Lansing, MI, Orlando, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida and Nashville, Tennessee.

Southgate Shopping Center

In August 2007, the News-Herald reported that the center was a candidate to house a Wal-Mart supercenter, which would be the 50th supercenter in Michigan, but only the third in Metro Detroit.

W47DL-D

The signal can be seen throughout the city of Detroit, its suburbs and the nearby Windsor area.

Westborn Market

Westborn Market is a small chain of produce-specializing supermarkets located in the Metropolitan Detroit area of southeast Michigan.


History of the Chinese Americans in Metro Detroit

As of 2002 Ethnic Chinese and Chinese American people are second largest Asian-origin ethnic group in the Wayne-Macomb-Oakland tri-county area in Metro Detroit.

Hoon-Yung Hopgood

He represents roughly half of the cities which make up the Downriver area of Metro Detroit, as well as other cities in Wayne County.

Mattress World of Michigan

Mattress World was, according to a Furniture Today article, the apparent high bidder for six Mattress Discounters stores in Metro Detroit; Mattress Discounters was exiting the Michigan market.

WHNE-LD

Therefore, the station has filed an application to relocate its transmitter to WMYD's tower in Oak Park and broadcast on channel 20, focusing on the Metro Detroit area.