After 30 years of neglect, two century-old Ann Arbor homes are being salvaged, nail-by-nail, for use in a new commercial net-zero energy building. How cool is that?
Tired, derelict homes come down to make way for bigger, newer buildings all the time. It's an common enough story in and around Ann Arbor's downtown. This week, however, there's a development project that's added a new twist, making use of the old to create the best of the new.
Work crews are in the process of deconstructing two 100-year-old houses on North Main Street in Ann Arbor this week. The materials from the buildings will be reused to construct a brand new spa focused on sustainability next year.
"Typically these buildings that are falling apart are bulldozed and thrown into a landfill," says Matt Grocoff, a partner in Polymath which is handling the deconstruction. Read the full article in Concentrate.