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The Voices of Detroit: Neighborhood Rising Summit

Neighborhood, People / 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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Want a better Detroit? Build a better Detroit

Neighborhood, People / 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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What’s In a Name?

History, People / 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 / 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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Voices of Detroit: Early American Detroit

History, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

The El Moore, a reconstruction project focusing on historic rehabilitation and modern urban sustainability, is based on the history of Detroit as a city of neighborhoods, and how that history shapes how Detroit is reinventing itself yet again. This is part of the series of posts on the “Voices of Detroit” and how those voices

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Voices of Detroit: A Visit by Mary Sheffield

City of Detroit, Neighborhood, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

The El Moore, a residential apartment complex that is designed to be a model of urban sustainable living, is located on the 600 block of West Alexandrine, which is considered part of the Midtown area of Detroit. The El Moore, and its affiliated project, the Green Garage, a model of an urban sustainable work environment,

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Rescuer of the Railings – Tom Delaney

People, Sustainability / Kimberly Williamson

Tom Delaney is no stranger to the El Moore. The local real estate professional first become aware of the building during an Urban Land Institute tour of Midtown back in 2005. He became more intimately acquainted with it a few years later, during an auction of some of the building’s contents, when he found himself in a bidding war over

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Voices of Detroit: British Detroit

History, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

The El Moore, a historic apartment building erected in 1898 and located on the corner of 2nd Avenue and West Alexandrine, is a sustainable urban living reconstruction project slated to open in the spring of 2015. The El Moore itself is a story of Detroit; one of many stories about our city, from the past

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