DETROIT In an attempt to help restaurants get their people back to work the city of Detroit is expediting the process for permitting of outdoor restaurant seating as well as the possibility of closing streets to traffic to increase outdoor seating. Whitmer lifts stay-at-home order across state, reopening restaurants, moreDetroit City Council today unanimously passed a resolution to allow city agencies to do 24 turnaround on sidewalk permits, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said. Restaurants are allowed to reopen at 50 percent capacity next Monday, but dont expect everything to open back up immediately. READ: Heres everything thats reopening in Michigan now that stay-at-home order has been liftedWhich is why he will start by reopening Townhouse Birmingham next week and then eventually reopen Townhouse Detroit as well as Prime and Proper over the coming weeks. He says the reopening is like the grand opening of a restaurant.