It’s impossible to avoid the deterioration and vacancy abundant within any post-industrial City.  Optimistically, these voids and vacancies are also the City’s possibilities for the future.  In fact, our City and the Great Lakes industrial region have persisted in this state of duality for many years.  While many see the bad and the ugly, others see the good, the beauty, and most importantly, the potential.

Hope is found on multiple scales.  In the photo, we find it at a small scale, bursting forth from the most unexpected place…