It's official, reports HuffPost Detroit, Detroit impressed ESPN enough to be named a finalist last week for the
Summer X Games beginning in 2014.
An excerpt:
ESPN announced the competing cities had been narrowed down to Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Texas and Charlotte, N.C. Organizers Kevin Krease and Garret Koehler, with the support of city administration, business leaders and other stakeholders, submitted their official bid for the project in early April. Good work, guys.
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