Tracy Donohue

Detroit

Writer, Content Writer, Researcher, and Consultant at Freelance

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In Harmony - Detroit Design

Jan 20, 2025 | detroitdesignmag.com | Tracy Donohue

When Michelle Davis, of the award-winning Farmington Hills-based interior design firm Davis & Davis, was approached by a long-term commercial client to work on his new home project, she felt honored to assist him and his wife with their dream house, as her firm had been focusing on commercial projects. Davis, principal and chief design officer, explains, “We’ve worked with this client for years on commercial projects that all have modern designs.
Contemporary Sophistication

Sep 25, 2024 | detroitdesignmag.com | Tracy Donohue |Megan Swoyer

When Dan Moore and his wife, Liz, decided to build their third house together, they wanted a warm and welcoming, yet modern, home that their young family could love in the long term. “The house was such an investment of time and money that we wanted it to be timeless and something our family could grow into and evolve (with) as needed,” Moore says.
Designs On: Quintessential Detroit

Sep 23, 2024 | detroitdesignmag.com | Tracy Donohue |Khristi Zimmeth

When Detroit-based real estate and investment firm The Roxbury Group acquired the historic David Whitney Building in 2011, it did so with bold plans for a nearly $90 million adaptive-use renovation that would include a Marriot Aloft hotel and upscale apartments. The project was completed three years later. As with many other buildings in the city, the David Whitney Building had fallen into disrepair and had been empty for more than a decade before being given new life.
Big Water Tales - Michigan Blue Magazine

Sep 20, 2024 | mibluemag.com | Tracy Donohue

Writer, conservationist, and fishing enthusiast Thomas Buhr lived the first 14 years of his life in Ann Arbor before moving with his family to Florida, where his father retired in the early 1970s. “I spent the first part of my life as a Midwesterner, then came of age during the end days of Old Florida in Boca Raton — a place no one had heard of at the time. I became interested in conservation after watching development steal away this magical land that we can’t get back,” he says.
Lakeside Serenity

Sep 1, 2024 | detroitdesignmag.com | Tracy Donohue |Megan Swoyer

Leighanne LaMarre, interior designer and owner of Leighanne LaMarre Interiors in Brighton, had just completed a home design project for a Detroit-area client in late 2021 when the homeowners requested her design expertise for a vacation house they had purchased on Walloon Lake in Charlevoix County. “Leighanne was so easy to work with, and we knew we couldn’t do the lake house without her,” the homeowner says enthusiastically.
Wonderful Woodwork

Aug 5, 2024 | mibluemag.com | Tracy Donohue

When Jeff Smith and Shayn Smith met a decade ago, they discovered they had more than a surname in common. Over the following year, the two highly skilled woodworking artisans collaborated on several projects and found they shared a similar passion for their craft. It seemed a natural next step to combine their talents by launching a fine woodworking company, which they called SmithMade.
U.P. Chronicles - Michigan Blue Magazine

Jun 24, 2024 | mibluemag.com | Tracy Donohue

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is full of wilderness, wildlife, wonder — and good stories. That’s why writer, photographer, historian, and adventurer Mikel B. Classen started writing about the U.P. more than four decades ago, when he realized that little was being penned about the Wolverine State north of Grayling. “The U.P. is an extraordinary place full of history and adventure, from pioneers and pirates to heroes and villains. It’s a place that has been largely ignored in literature and history.
Exploring Port Austin

Mar 8, 2023 | mibluemag.com | Tracy Donohue

Driving along the 120 miles of M-53 leading north out of metro Detroit, the transition from urban to suburban to rural added a relaxing aspect to an action-packed Port Austin getaway. As I passed through small towns and sprawling farmland where beans, corn, grain, and sugar beets grow, I shared the highway with farm vehicles and kayak-carrying SUVs en route to their Tip of The Thumb destinations.