It’s been another exciting week on the 600 block of West Alexandrine, with lifts hoisting materials to the rooftop cabins, continued earthmoving around the green alley, and crews working 50 feet in the air to install the top sections of our metal bay windows. Amid all of this buzz, a small crew from Esko Roofing began sifting and …
So Tomboy Supermarket (some might say the ‘notorious’ Tomboy Market) is no more. Perusing the handful of articles and posts about the location over the years offer a conflicted portrait of the El Moore’s rugged neighbor on the east side opposite corner of Second Avenue. If there is any kind of common thread among the commentators, …
“This whole area was big automotive when it started.” –Pat Dorne, Executive Director, Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corporation Cass Corridor has been a lot of things throughout the years, but in those early years during the latter part of the 1800s when the area was really coming to life, the area surrounding the El Moore and …
The greenhouse is the big news this week. Roof tiles (from a Boston Edison home) were added, and reclaimed steel windows began to give the building a distinct look. Work continued this week in the alley, this time focused on drainage. Kelly Window installed the last few windows in the building, the long narrow windows …
During the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the El Moore building on 2nd Avenue and Alexandrine, we are building more than a residential complex. We are building a community. How do you “build” a community? Over the past few years in Detroit, especially in Midtown and downtown, there has been a boom of new businesses, rehabbing …
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“This is the second image that I did, and it kind of captures another moment in time. It’s a front doorway, but it’s the most iconic part of it. You’re seeing the El Moore sign in it, but at the same time you’re seeing how rough the stairway to it is, the overgrown brush …
Many of the photos this week come from the top of the rooftop cabins. Jason persuaded me to get up on top of the cabins so we could see what is happening with the solar panels, and I slowly (and with great trepidation) made my way up the ladder. Up on top the roof is …
Construction Update – Week of September 29, 2014 Read More »
If you have been keeping up with our construction blog posts, you know that the El Moore is a complex building project with ambitious sustainability goals. As such, it was critical to retain not just a highly competent general contractor but one that shared the same triple bottom line values as the El Moore project …
