Make no mistake; Michigan is not Palm Springs, nor is it South Florida. The sun most certainly does not shine all the time, and a good portion of our days are cold ones. To everything a season, and Michigan most definitely has all four. It’s that 365 days-a-year spirit that the El Moore‘s Seasons is expected to bring to […]
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As we chronicle the restoration of the El Moore and the development of the community around it, we often give the old building its own voice. It’s too bad Old Main doesn’t have a voice, because no doubt it would have quite a few stories to tell about how the surrounding neighborhood that is now
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Although there are (finally) some good news stories circulating in the national press about Detroit and the more positive things that are happening here in Midtown where the El Moore is located, the image of Detroit as a dangerous city where folks get murdered all the time, people get robbed all the time, and cars
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After so many years of disparagement, Detroiters have become bitterly accustomed to being forced to endure a stream of misinformed mischaracterizations of their city by those who seem focused solely on frequently reported crime stats and the ever-present ruin porn as the sole definition of one of America’s most important cities. One of the things that
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Yep. It’s cold in Detroit in January. When you’re inside at the El Moore, however, you will be quite comfortable because of the carefully planned sustainability components that have been installed. There was a post about energy consumption at the El Moore back in July 2014; you can see that post here. Actually, to be
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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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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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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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