Bill Kubota - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Bill Kubota is the Senior Producer for Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit initiative, which provides programing and online content for PBS stations and the Detroit Journalism Cooperative.

Content

Total articles 18

• New businesses bring foot traffic to Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion

  By Bill Kubota Verified, Christine Ferretti Verified| BridgeDetroit Verified The Avenue of Fashion in northwest Detroit has a storied past. High end clothiers set up shop near Seven Mile Road and Livernois Avenue, becoming a destination for shoppers after World War II. The district’s decline started a couple decades later. Now, a surge of new restaurants and specialty shops have filled vacant storefronts in the area, and many are Black-owned businesses. Algernon Bartell, owner of the Times Square Men’s Custom Clothing Store, set up shop on the Avenue in 2010.

  By Bill Kubota Verified, Christine Ferretti Verified · BridgeDetroit

  Oct. 01, 2024

• Michigan coney dog origin stories

  By Bill Kubota Verified, Christine Ferretti Verified| BridgeDetroit Verified The origin of Detroit’s Coney Island hot dogs goes back more than 100 years, thanks to some Greek immigrants who ventured first to Coney Island New York, sampled hot dogs there, came to Detroit and started selling them. But Coney Island hot dogs in some other parts of the state have a very different origin. Michigan Coney dog historian Dave Liske calls coney dogs a state of mind. “I eat coneys all over the country.

  By Bill Kubota Verified, Christine Ferretti Verified · BridgeDetroit

  Jun. 11, 2024

• 'Poletown Lives!' Recalls How GM and Detroit Destroyed a Neighborhood

  By Bill Kubota Verified| Bloomberg CityLab Verified “These people responsible for this are worse than the communists in Poland,” one local said when General Motors razed the neighborhood in the early 1980s.

  By Bill Kubota Verified · Bloomberg CityLab

  Dec. 10, 2018

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WTVS-TV (Wixom, MI)