The past few weeks have been busy ones on the El Moore site. Monahan Brothers and their selected contractors have been working on every floor of the building, adding foundational elements to the structure. One of the most easily visible signs of progress is the elevator tower, located to the left of the main building […]
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The El Moore building project is a great example of sustainable development. However the term, “Sustainable Development”, has a fairly wide definition, and can mean many different things to many different people. The most widely accepted definition comes from the Brundtland Commissions 1987 report and defines sustainable development as, “development which meets the needs of
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Right there on the corner where Cass and Amsterdam meet up is an historic building recently purchased by Wayne State University and repurposed/converted into a new biomedical research facility as part of its TechTown District expansion. Not all old buildings in Detroit are quite so lucky. Those who know the building’s history as one of
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Significant changes are happening to the two areas of the building: the roof and the basement. Before we bought the building, we knew that it had stood vacant for many years, in part because the economic model for its future wasn’t clear to prospective buyers. When we looked into the economics of resurrecting the building, one
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Recently, America said goodbye to radio icon Casey Kasem, longtime host of “American Top 40.” (Maybe some of our younger readers will recognize him as the voice of “Shaggy” on the Scooby Doo cartoons.) What’s the connection to the El Moore, you ask? As with the Green Garage, part of the research we’ve done on
The El Moore which is in Midtown, which used to be the Cass Corridor, which is in Detroit, which is in Michigan. The point being that there are so many different lenses through which to view the El Moore and the surrounding neighborhood. History is not a single stream, and nothing/no one exists out of context.
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Context is everything, and location is most certainly context. To get a better idea of where the El Moore is located, and thus a better understanding of its context, you need to know where we are. From Wiki: Midtown Detroit is a mixed-use area containing a business district, cultural center, university, and residential neighborhoods located
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Not that we do it for the recognition, but when recognition does come our way we must say it feels good. So when we noticed that our very own El Moore was recently reviewed in CURBED Detroit, well, that was pretty cool. Here is some
