by Sean McConnell | May 28, 2013 | Building Buzz
Another busy week here in Detroit at U-Haul Moving and Storage of New Center. We are definitely in the home stretch of our adaptive reuse of this 93-year-old Nabisco building. It was also a week where we learned a bit more about the building’s past and about the...
by Sean McConnell | May 25, 2013 | Community News
Detroit – Not the first city you think of when it comes to watch manufacturing. Why? Because there is only one watch manufacturer in the U.S, Shinola. When we learned about our new neighbor- Shinola, and their commitment to building in America, we had to...
by Sean McConnell | May 20, 2013 | Building Buzz
The signs of summer are all around us at U-Haul Moving and Storage of New Center. Temperatures are rising, flowers are blooming and the asphalt is flowing. Asphalt? Yep. Asphalt, blacktop, flexible concrete. (Sorry, got caught up in a “Beverly Hillbillies” moment.)...
by Sean McConnell | May 15, 2013 | Community News, People
Did you know that Detroit was once known as “the city of trees”? If you have been to Detroit recently, then that fact may surprise you. That’s because between 1950 and 1980, nearly half a million trees in Detroit were lost to Dutch Elm disease, urban expansion,...
by Sean McConnell | May 8, 2013 | Building Buzz
Detail work is what we’re about this week in Detroit at U-Haul Moving and Self-Storage of New Center. That, and reusing some salvaged pipe to create a showroom display. Reuse spiffs up the showroom We’re all about keeping and reusing original materials,...
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