 
Urbanoutdoors
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Username: Urbanoutdoors
Post Number: 281
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 11:55 pm: |    |
What is the new building being built on the north east corner of 75 and 14th? |
Broken_main
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Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1220
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 12:45 am: | |
A church |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 916
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 8:38 am: | |
Are you serious Broken_main or just messin'? Seems to be an odd place for a church in the Corktown neighborhood there. |
Buddyinrichmond
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Username: Buddyinrichmond
Post Number: 160
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 9:19 am: | |
A church......In a neighborhood....shocking.... |
Thejesus
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Username: Thejesus
Post Number: 1084
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 9:23 am: | |
That's good because at the moment, Detroit only has 1 church per every 5 residents...this should help bring that ratio down to 4... |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 922
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 9:28 am: | |
Yeah I was gonna say that that would be shocking except that 90% of that neighborhood's residents are gone and I think that its original 'neighborhood church' went with it.... |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9065
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 3:20 pm: | |
Isn't there a Mormon church being built around there, too, or is this the building in question?! |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 935
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 3:23 pm: | |
"a Mormon church being built around there"
That would really really surprise me!!! |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 3:48 pm: | |
I'm so surprised as well! Crazy stuff! |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 877
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 3:54 pm: | |
Don't be TOO surprised. The LDS church is, so I hear, the fastest-growing denomination there is. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9069
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 4:46 pm: | |
I'm taking a bike ride with my camera for youse here in a minute. |
Broken_main
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Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1221
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 6:35 pm: | |
When I asked the contractor...the answer that they gave me was "I think it's a church". So i took that as a definite answer. We will see. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9074
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 8:42 pm: | |
Yeah, took in a great Slows dinner and a pint of Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter...then another pint of Guinness at the Gaelic League...and rode across the street for some good shots in the sunset lighting...but there are NO signs anywhere on the building.
Too boring to waste even digits on, and it was getting too chilly for my shorted ass...I'll try to get some shots another day.
I got confirmation from my favorite 'jack' Mormon that it is indeed the new LDS church...they might only use the term temple for the big ones, didn't get the chance to ask him that. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 941
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 8:54 am: | |
Well the large Mormon churches/temples are usually nothing less than extremely ornate and fancy. I guess I never believed that the City of Detroit could use another one of those, but I guess it does. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1630
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 9:14 am: | |
then it definitely isn't a temple, as cinder blocks abound |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9085
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 10:17 am: | |
We haven't seen the veneer yet.
Didja see the Muslim Mosque being built on Ford Road for all those years?!
It didn't look like much for a very long time either.
I'm curious, though, I've never seen a church with such a garage door on it... |
Gdub
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Username: Gdub
Post Number: 1093
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 12:02 pm: | |
The Mormons have held services at the CPA building for a while, so it makes sense that they would move to establish a place of their own and not have to use makeshift facilities. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 945
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 1:43 pm: | |
Still hard for me to imagine that there is a concentration of Mormons in the area, let alone any concentrations of people. Are the Irish in corktown converting? |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9099
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:18 pm: | |
Heh, not if my favorite jack Mormon has his way...he says he entertains the youngun' missionaries often, and always tries to give them something to think about.
Saw a few of them riding their bikes on Woodward after lunch today...they're easy to spot. Ain't TOO many dressed up white dudes riding bikes in pairs in the city. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1631
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:20 pm: | |
gannon, i think you just found the reason for the garage door.... bike storage |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4246
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:33 pm: | |
With all the beautiful closed churches in Detroit, it's a wonder why they started from scratch... |