October 4, 2026 · Detroit
A neighborhood block after the event lets out
What is open on the block once the crowd has gone.
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October 4, 2026 · Ann Arbor
State Street on a weekday
The street when the students are in class.
October 3, 2026 · Troy
A downtown still being built
What the city is assembling where a main street should be.
October 3, 2026 · Georgetown Township
A township without a single main street
Where people gather when there is no square.
October 3, 2026 · Bay City
Both banks of the Saginaw
Two downtowns facing each other.
October 2, 2026 · Upper Peninsula
Winter hours on the main streets
Which doors stay open when the visitors thin out.
October 2, 2026 · Grand Rapids
Downtown after the office day
Which rooms stay lit past six.
October 2, 2026 · Battle Creek
Downtown after the plant shift
The street at shift change.
October 2, 2026 · Delta Township
Life behind the retail frontage
The neighborhoods past the big lots.
October 1, 2026 · Up North
The towns that have to work in January
A cafe open on a weekday morning is the story.
October 1, 2026 · Warren
The plant towns and the blocks behind them
Work sites and the streets behind them.
October 1, 2026 · Midland
A company town’s public square
Which spaces belong to the city.
October 1, 2026 · Bedford Township
A township on the state line
Schools, the lake shore, and the roads into Ohio.
September 30, 2026 · Port Huron
The waterfront and the blocks behind it
A public river path and the businesses that depend on it.
September 30, 2026 · Kalamazoo
Downtown Kalamazoo on a Tuesday
A weekday lunch hour, not a festival.
September 30, 2026 · Jackson
The square after five
Whether the square has a reason to be there on a Thursday.
September 29, 2026 · Lansing
When the legislature is dark
The city on a day with no session.
September 29, 2026 · Saginaw
What replaced the empty storefront
A named block and what is in it now.
September 28, 2026 · Flint
The block that stayed open
A specific street, not a slogan.
September 28, 2026 · Muskegon
The channel towns on a workday
Fishing boats and the downtown lunch hour.