May 8, 2009
A University in Detroit Pins New Hopes on Old Buildings
In the old industrial core of this struggling city, a boarded-up factory at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Burroughs Street tells the story of a long economic decline. Several letters have long since vanished from its rooftop sign, and trees grow out the top like the unkempt locks of a gritty giant well past its prime.
But while the incomplete lettering and overgrown foliage atop the American Beauty Electric Irons building may add a weary postscript to the tale of this city's
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