Achille Bianchi

Ten years ago, no company would have promoted its products by associating them with Detroit -- a city where the population decreased by more than half in just over 50 years. While the city used to be associated with themes of decline and decay, a new Detroit emerging from bankruptcy is resembling...

For Achille Bianchi, it all started with a pair of sunglasses. He got the wood from a friend's boatyard. He'd been messing around in the woodshop of OmniCorpDetroit, a collective of entrepreneurs, artists and others that operates out of a 800,000 square-foot building in Detroit's Eastern Market....