Rise of the Phoenix

03/12/2026

Police are responding to a scene in West Bloomfield for an active situation. Sources say an active shooter threat located in the area of Temple Israel.

03/12/2026

03/10/2026

Oakland County’s transformation of a vacant former General Motors building into a new office tower is making great progress in our downtown!

02/13/2026

Throwback to February 11, 1930 when our city’s airport became the first in the nation to win an A-1-A rating from the federal government. The City of Pontiac started and operated our own airport from 1929 to 1967. It was then transferred to Oakland County operations and is today known as Oakland County International Airport.

01/23/2026

Pontiac has successfully pumped the breaks on data centers in our community. Thank you to the City Council for unanimously passing my proposal for a moratorium. Over the coming months, we’ll work with them and the community to build the appropriate safeguards and land use requirements that work best for our city.

01/15/2026

Day by day, one of the largest historic preservation projects in recent memory in Pontiac moves closer to completion.

During a tour of the former Pontiac State Bank Building/Oakland Towne Center at 28 N. Saginaw St, the team behind Southfield-based Blackacre Management said the 185-foot tower downtown is expected to start taking residents in some of its 110 rental units next month or so, with a full certificate of occupancy hoped for in March.

The $14.5 million redevelopment has been in the works for years and the end product will also include an event space called The Reserve on the main level, plus a coffee and pastry shop and bodega space in the north and south retail suites, respectively, and a smaller 75-person event space on the third floor.

Blackacre bought the former bank building in 2021 along with investors, and has been working on its conversion into a multifamily housing space for years.

For all the talk over the years about injecting life into long-struggling central business districts like Pontiac, this project is one of the more consequential in recent memory, defibrillating a building that, only sparsely occupied, was basically on life support.

Read more here: https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate-insider/rehab-pontiac-state-bank-building-nears-completion?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=soc-own

01/14/2026

08/22/2025

Demolition definitely moving ahead of schedule!! Collapsed Friday afternoon 8/22

08/22/2025

Oakland County’s redevelopment of a former GM office tower in our downtown made a major leap forward this week, with the Pontiac Planning Commission approving the site plan for their building renovations. As a member of our Planning Commission, I made the motion to approve and I voted yes. ✅