Thursday, June 28, 2012

Parkman Library Update

Parkman Library is rejuvinated as a 21st century library.
Opened on April 16, 1931 as the eighteenth member of the Detroit Library system, in 2012 it's new technology and literacy center serves 400 patrons a day with free Internet access and technology training.



Circa 1931


Circa 1931








Friday, June 22, 2012

Judging an Old Book with a New Cover


The exterior improvements at Detroit Housing Commission's Warren West apartments are complete. It's new colors shining cheerfully over the I-94 horizon.

Bronze energy efficient slider aluminum windows compliment a three tone exterior coating.  Towering over its sister buildings along this section of Warren Avenue, its new skin dominates the Core City neighborhood skyline.

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