Jefferson Chalmers Gets $5M From Penske, Scoop Comes To Detroit And More

Welcome to the Hump Day edition of your Daily Detroit, in which we run down the news that businessman Roger Penske is pouring $5 million into the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood on Detroit's east side. It's part of the city's Strategic Neighborhood Fund.

Jer also has a conversation today with Rob Sadow, the co-founder and head of Scoop Technologies. It's a carpooling app that connects drivers, riders and designs routes. They've teamed up with the Bedrock family of companies to help employees ease their commuting and parking woes. Could carpooling be a thing in Detroit? Pretty interesting question in a region without comprehensive mass transit and long commutes, often to a central downtown.

We also discuss two other bits of news:

• A Detroit charter school connected to an investment fund run by tennis star Andre Agassi is closing, another example of Michigan's dysfunctional charter school system [Chalkbeat Detroit]
• And Detroit could get a whopping 60 new liquor licenses [Crain's]

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