December 2014 - El Moore

The Voice of Detroit Neighborhoods: Midtown as a Planned Mixed-Use Neighborhood

City of Detroit, History, Neighborhood / By Pamela Hilliard Owens

As Detroit once again rises and experiences growth, rebirth, and reconstruction in many areas of our City, including the near-completion of the El Moore , we are experiencing how Detroit is attempting to balance the maze of freeways that cut through our neighborhoods and the goal of many neighborhoods to become more walkable and pedestrian-friendly. …

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The Voices of Detroit: Neighborhood Rising Summit

Neighborhood, People / By Pamela Hilliard Owens

ARISE Detroit! is a coalition of community groups primary focused on improving the neighborhoods of the City of Detroit, including volunteers from the El Moore in Midtown. According to Luther Keith, Executive Director of ARISE Detroit!, the goal of the organization is to unite the entire volunteer efforts of our Detroit community, including nonprofit organizations, churches, schools, …

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Silent Night: the El Moore reflects on its revival

El Fiction / By Keith Owens

I’m not quite sure why they chose me, but I’m glad they did. After all, I am hardly the only building in the neighborhood in need of some extra care and attention. There are quite a few of us who fall into that category, and over the past few decades those numbers have only grown. …

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A close-up look at Cass Farms

2 Comments / History / By Matthew Piper

Local history and architecture nerds, rejoice! While doing some web research on A.C. Varney, the original architect of the El Moore (1898), we discovered a remarkably detailed document about the history of our neighborhood that we’ve never seen before. We thought you might like to have a look, too. The unassumingly titled Historic and Architectural Resources of the Cass Farm …

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Want a better Detroit? Build a better Detroit

Neighborhood, People / By Keith Owens

When asked how long he has been involved with property development in Detroit’s Midtown area, Bob Slattery relays a memory from when the native eastsider was a young man growing up in the city. “It’s a funny story, my brother took me down here in 1974. He was a year ahead of me in school, and he …

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Where Did Everyone Go?

City of Detroit, History / By Guest

It has been well publicized. Decades of severe loss of population, an under-performing public school system, an economy heavily dependent on just one industry, abandoned homes, crime out of control (including the infamous title of the nation’s murder capital). Yes, I’m referring to Washington D.C. a few decades ago. OK, well, maybe it has not been …

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What’s In a Name?

History, People / By Martha Peterson

Well, apparently, a bit more than we thought. In an earlier post, we introduced readers to Charles W. Moore, the person who, for $24,000, funded the construction of the El Moore apartments in 1898. After a bit more research, we discovered that there were, in fact, two Charles W. Moores who lived in Detroit during that …

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Bob Sestok – metal artist neighbor

Cass Corridor Stories, Neighborhood, People / By Keith Owens

Before the fresh, exuberant hipness of Midtown, there were the sharp edges of the Cass Corridor. And in the early days of the Cass Corridor, back in the ‘60s and’70s, there was the Cass Corridor Arts Movement, which became an internationally recognized movement. Local artist and native Detroiter Bob Sestok, who still lives in the …

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