Plans for a new 227-room hotel in Detroit’s Corktown took a step forward, even as occupancy rates for the city’s downtown-area hotels are near record lows. The proposed seven-story, $74-million Godfrey Hotel would be built at 1401 Michigan Ave., pending the demolition of a vacant building that years ago housed administrative offices for the Detroit Lions and later the City Cab Co. Read the Detroit Free Press story here