Detroit

Four Detroit High Rises Account for 15% of Elevator Calls

Over the past year, four high rises housing low-income residents accounted for 15% of all emergency calls about broken elevators to the Detroit Fire Department, Outlier Media reports, citing WDIV....

TEI Group’s Southeast Expansion Continues With Hire of Monette

NYC-headquartered TEI Group continues its Southeast expansion with the hire of Jim Monette as a regional sales consultant. Monette brings decades of hands-on experience as an elevator salesman, coupled with...

Otis Colleagues Recognized at Women of Color STEM Awards

Otis colleagues Whitni Wilson-Wertz, Erin Scott and Nikki Moore were honored on October 8 at the Women of Color STEM Conference in Detroit. Wilson-Wertz was presented with a Special Recognition...

Kings III Acquired by Arcline Investment Management

Kings III, a Coppell, Texas-based provider of emergency monitoring solutions for elevator and other systems across North America, has been acquired by Arcline Investment Management, a private equity firm with...

VDA Adds VP of Business Development, Based in Detroit

Elevator and escalator consulting firm VDA® announced in June the addition of Pete Long as vice president of business development, based in the Detroit office with an initial focus on...

New Renderings of Anticipated Detroit Tower Development

Dan Gilbert, the billionaire developer behind the ambitious redevelopment of the Hudson's Department Store site in downtown Detroit, recently released updated renderings, including one showing escalators, the Detroit Free Press...

Work Underway For High-Rise Apartment Tower In Detroit

Detroit-based developer Sterling Group is preparing a high-rise, multi-residential complex at the site of the former Joe Louis Arena, The Detroit News reports. The project will offer studio and one-bedroom...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept