[CPEO-BIF] WaterWheel Centre, Northville, Michigan

[lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)]

The WaterWheel Centre is a classic example that not all old buildings 
are blight.

Jon Zemke
Metromode Media (MI)
January 22, 2009

Eyesore is what a lot of local residents saw when they looked at 235 E 
Main St. after Ford pulled out of it. The Albert Kahn-designed building 
had fallen a long ways since Henry Ford commissioned it as one his last 
community industry buildings. This factory, which once made the valves 
in every Ford for the heart of the 20th Century, stood empty when 
Richard Cox found it in 1994.

"They actually were thinking of tearing the building down," Cox says. "I 
rebuild cars and when I saw the building I knew it was a diamond in the 
rough."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.metromodemedia.com/devnews/waterwheelcentrenorthville0100.aspx

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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