In case you missed them, there were two interesting articles about the El Moore’s neighborhood that came out last week, one in Model D and one in the New York Times. Both are thoughtful takes on a subject that our readers will know well: the significant and ongoing changes that continue to mark life in Midtown, née the Cass Corridor. […]
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This week’s edition of the Detroit web magazine Model D featured an pretty in-depth interview with Tom Brennan, co-founder of the Green Garage and the El Moore, about how and why to build green in Detroit. We like to think of the El Moore, which is an experiment in sustainable living, as a sister project to the
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We were delighted to see that the El Moore project was mentioned in three news outlets over the last few weeks! At the end of August, both Crain’s and the Free Press ran pieces that included the El Moore as part of the wider story of current Detroit development projects. And just this past Tuesday, this very blog was
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Who knew that sustainable redevelopment was hip? This week we were delighted to find mention of the El Moore development in SoulMag (has sadly moved on), a “stylish, hip, trendy, chic, edgy online fashion magazine for fashion-forward women.” The article says that we’re Detroit’s first hostel, and we do want to clear up that we’re not (Hostel Detroit
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Imagine our surprise and delight when we happened upon this June blog post referencing the El Moore development in, of all places, a model railroad building blog called 30 Squares. What, we wondered, does model railroad building have to do with our sustainable rehab of a historic Detroit apartment building? It turns out that the answer’s all in the name. Our railroad
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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
The El Moore, 624 W. Alexandrine, has a life of its own on the web. Vacant since the the early 2000s, its distinctive look and storied history, as well as a brief, mid-decade revitalization effort, kept people interested and talking about the building — and the lives lived within it — in news articles, blogs, photo
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