The next time you’re in downtown Detroit’s Campus Martius or Cadillac Square parks with your laptop, tablet, phone or phablet, you will be able to connect to a free wireless internet network called “Opportunity Detroit.”
Opportunity Detroit is the name of a marketing effort for the city led by Rock Ventures, the umbrella company of Quicken Loans founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert.
Rock Ventures’ real estate arm, Bedrock Real Estate Services, is sponsoring the free Wi-Fi in the city’s core, along with Southfield-based tech firm 123.Net.
The wireless connection will also be available in the lobbies of Rock Ventures’ adjacent buildings; the First National Building, Chase Tower and the 1001 Woodward Building.
The wireless connection will also be available in the lobbies of Rock Ventures’ adjacent buildings; the First National Building, Chase Tower and the 1001 Woodward Building.
Rock Ventures now owns or controls about 40 buildings and some 8 million square feet of real estate in downtown Detroit. With its 80 affiliated companies, Rock Ventures now employs 11,500 people in downtown Detroit, and about 15,000 employees nationwide.
“This is an effort to activate the streets and bring people to downtown Detroit to live, work, and play,” a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
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