Green Garage to expand by summer’s end

Between five and eight environmentally-focused companies will move into
Tom and Peggy Noonan’s Green Garage in Midtown, which will roll open its
doors to offer Detroit a sustainable center for going green. The
couple, who purchased the warehouse with retirement money, have
transformed the vacant building into an almost completely efficient
building (think rain water catching systems, solar panel energy and
more). A team of entrepreneurs working out of the Garage are also
doing business by the same ethos.

One company moving into the Green
Garage is building furniture — but this isn’t your ordinary
hand-crafted stuff.

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Their merchandise will be made
from wood and other materials they gather from abandoned homes in
Detroit. The entrepreneur plans to purchase the materials from the
rightful owners, such as the city or a bank. To make the furniture more
meaningful, the owner plans to engrave the house address that the
materials came from right onto the furniture. He also plans to include a
brief history of the home the material came from so the owner of the
furniture can own a small piece of Detroit’s history.

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