Philip A. Hart Plaza
Event venue in Detroit, MichiganWikipedia
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Oct 14, 2026
Dorian MooreHOST
Right.
Mark NickitaHOST
And uh, I don't know if we could start maybe down at the, at the riverfront with Hart Plaza.
Dorian MooreHOST
Hart Plaza.
Mark NickitaHOST
Yeah.
Dorian MooreHOST
Which is interesting 'cause it, uh, Hart, Hart Plaza is-
Mark NickitaHOST
Which isn't part of the original-
Dorian MooreHOST
Right
Mark NickitaHOST
And then the public space-
John DoyleHOST
I just want nothing like that in my home state.
John DoyleHOST
My home state, which by the way, I can go take a drive down to Hart Plaza in Detroit.
John DoyleHOST
They have a plaque.
John DoyleHOST
with the names of the founding convoy of the city in 1701 alongside Cadillac.
Chris RenwickHOST
Also coming up at 6:49, Eric Larson with the Downtown Detroit Partnership.
Chris RenwickHOST
They're flying a 30-foot banner in Hart Plaza that says, "Detroit and Canada are bridged on friendship." We'll talk to him about that.
Chris RenwickHOST
At 7:19, we're gonna talk about five people that have been killed in Lansing over the course of a year.
Chris RenwickHOST
Is there a serial killer on the loose in Lansing? Because there are some similarities in each of these cases.
Dave ReganHOST
But the, but, but, but, but what do you guy...
Dave ReganHOST
What do you call it when there's, like, there's something going on at Hart Plaza, there's something going on at, uh, Huntington Place?
Mark HollisHOST
W- uh, it's-
Dave ReganHOST
For all the big events
Nicole Young-MartinHOST
They now, I think, live in Europe, but they're known as the founders of electronic music, which includes House and all of that.
Nicole Young-MartinHOST
And That was such a fond memory to have and remember seeing these dark-skinned Black men DJing and having thousands of people of various backgrounds dancing to their music in Hart Plaza like that.
Nicole Young-MartinHOST
And
Desiree CooperGUEST
when you see various backgrounds, a great... percentage of the crowd were international that would come to the movement and that's still true today because the music was so popular in Europe before it really caught fire here so and people don't they think Detroit Motown but they don't think Detroit Electronica and absolutely absolutely yeah that's I've been a few times that's the fun that is a fun fun festival I love it
Shannon CasonHOST
I, I remember listening to this.
Shannon CasonHOST
Stevie did a free concert at Hart Plaza downtown, and people were standing in the middle of Woodward.
Shannon CasonHOST
It was, like, people everywhere, people on top of cars, on top of trucks, on top of the, the food vendors, and we were all just listening to Stevie Wonder, and he was singing this song.
Shannon CasonHOST
And I was in the middle of Woodward.
Chris OsgoodHOST
mean,
John KeatingHOST
that was only 600 people as opposed to the, I mean, when you're at Hart Plaza, I mean, Hart Plaza was...
John KeatingHOST
Yeah, but you don't have to be funny.
John KeatingHOST
A few hundred thousand people.