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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Michael Jordan autograph, luxury getaways up for bid in auction for Detroit students
A private plane trip to Mackinac Island with a weekend stay at the Inn at Stonecliffe, along with autographed items from legends like Michael Jordan, Bobby Knight and Billy Sims, are among the standout items in an auction benefiting Detroit Cristo Rey High School. The silent auction — part of a rooftop benefit at the Godfrey Hotel Detroit on Friday, May 16 — is currently live and open to the public online, though tickets to the in-person event have already sold out. Detroit Cristo Rey, located in southwest Detroit, is a coeducational Catholic high school open to students of all faiths. It offers a college preparatory education and a unique work-study program. The school boasts a 100% college acceptance rate since its first graduating class in 2012. Proceeds from the auction will help support students as they prepare for college and careers. "Our population of students comes from limited economic means," said the school's VP of communications and auction coordinator, Nicole Gize. More: Scrap yard fire in SW Detroit stinks up several cities in Wayne County; air tests clear Students help cover the cost of their tuition by working one day a week from freshman through senior year at more than 60 companies, including "Henry Ford Health, Corwell Health, Visit Detroit and General Motors, just to name a few,' Gize added. Philanthropic efforts, grants, and donations, including events like the May 16 auction, help cover about 45% of Detroit Cristo Rey students' college tuition costs. Other auction items up for grabs include a cruise on Lake St. Clair, a group retreat on Lake Huron, tickets to Detroit Tigers and Red Wings games, more signed sports memorabilia, a night at the Godfrey Hotel, a year's supply of Dutch Girl donuts, Bundt cakes, expensive wines and more. Bidders can browse and place offers online through the school's auction site. The silent auction closes at 9 p.m. on Friday, May 16. An anonymous donor has pledged a $150,000 matching gift to support the gala; all donations made through May 30 will be matched dollar for dollar, effectively doubling their impact. Nour Rahal is a trending and breaking news reporter. Email her: nrahal@ Follow her on Twitter @nrahal1. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Bid on luxury trips, rare sports memorabilia in Detroit school auction
Boston Globe
08-05-2025
- Boston Globe
This Boston hotel has been named one of the 10 best in the country. (And it happens to be one of our favorites.)
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The hotel opened in 2016, and Advertisement My most recent stay was last winter, and I liked it even more. The hotel now has free snacks in guest rooms. That means I wasn't paying $8 for potato chips. The best way to describe the guest rooms at the Godfrey is well-tailored and crisp. They're midcentury preppy, if such a thing exists. It's like visiting a cultured uncle's pied-à-terre in Harvard Square. Advertisement Just off the main lobby of the Godfrey Hotel is an elegant marble staircase. Godfrey Hotel I suspect that TripAdvisor readers weren't thinking about the hotel's architecture when leaving their reviews (I couldn't find any mention of it when I skimmed through), but the Gothic Revival building that the Godfrey occupies was designed by famed architect Arthur Bowditch. It's actually two buildings, designed by Bowditch in 1904 and 1906, that were combined when Downtown Crossing fell upon hard times. As a result, the rooms at the Godfrey are all unique. While the Godfrey isn't prohibitively expensive, it is not basic. This hotel uses Frette sheets and has a 55-inch television in each room. I've scored rooms as low as $150 a night during the winter. This time of year, every room in the city is expensive, and the Godfrey is averaging $400 a night or more. I've slept around this city a lot — in hotels, of course — and I think the Godfrey is fairly priced. The TripAdvisor ranking is good news for the hotel, but I confess that it also made me feel good. Here was my validation that a hotel can be memorable without offering a custom-scented shampoo or obsessing over its Instagram account. Christopher Muther can be reached at
