Open House
From Green Garage Detroit
Welcome
- Introductions
- How did we get here?
- Project
- intersection of environmental sustainability, future generations, Detroit
- I'm optimistic about all three
- Great work...
- Something needed to be done...began conversations...had two major and hundreds of small
- Building Plan
- ...acquire the building, Safe, secure and Dry, Foundational Work, Historic, Green Renovation.
- Already had Vision for Clean Water
- Virtual Green Garage Story
- Web, blog, Youtube, Flikr
- Support
- Optimism that comes from you....and is part of the global conversation
- overwhelming the resources and the opportunity
- How big do you want it to get?...seed of change
- Today's Agenda
- Historical Tour inside
- Dedicate this Building to the Great Work
- Community Inspiration Session..."How Green is Our Alley"
- Neighborhood tour
- Exciting adventure start walking together...
- Project
- How did we get here?
- Historical Tour of the Building
- Natural history
- Human history...some of this is our history...families When did your families move to this area?
- 1897 there were two house on the property Sanborn Maps
- 1920 building permit was taken out by DeFord Motor Truck Co....Diamond T truck
- 1921 sold to the Ames Auto company
- 1930 - 40's many companies...dealers, radiator company
- 1950 Kanners and Patrize...specialized in sundries ...shoes...Hudsons'
- 1966 took out permit for the side building...original plan to brick up halfway
- 1967 After the riots the front windows were bricked up
- 2004 Sold to J. Linardos...they were going to develop condo's
- Dedicate this Building to the Great Work
- Daruma...Nana Korobi Yaoki (if you fall down seven times, get up eight)
- Its meaning? the daruma has become symbolic for optimism, persistence, and strong determination.
- Who in pursuit of enlightenment meditated by staring a a wall for seven years....arms and legs fell off.
- Community Inspiration Session..."How Green is Our Alley"
- Background...Motor City Brewing Works...new back entrance...alleys
- Googled Detroit Alleys...nothing but despair, and bowling alleys
- Chicago Alley project
- Help us redraw the boundaries of what is possible.
<<<we-can-do-it>>>
- Neighborhood tour
- The more you know the more you care
- Leader Jeanette Pierce, Director of Information, Inside Detroit...educating people about Detroit
- End up at Traffic Jam ,,,may need to sit in smaller groups.
Logistics
- Bring
- Table, chairs, paint, paper, crayons/markers, tape, bell, boards to write on, Great Work, song, Daruma, black pen
