The renovation of New Center's Argonaut building by CCS could lead to further redevelopment of the area.
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From an idea floated in a November 2006 dinner conversation, the
CCS-Argonaut renovation began last year and is to culminate Sept. 8
when fall-term classes begin for CCS and the charter school.
Detroit
boosters, always scanning for a savior to ignite revival, tout the
project as a catalyst for a creative corridor of galleries, schools,
museums and cutting-edge businesses in the arts, design and media along
Woodward from the New Center to the Detroit River. If that's an
exaggerated expectation for one fix-up of an old building in these
dreary economic times, CCS President Rick Rogers doesn't shrink from it.
"We
see it as an economic-development engine," Rogers told me before I
toured the building where legendary General Motors designer Harley Earl
gave us concept cars and tail fins from his studio on the 11-story
Argonaut's top floor in the mid-1900s.
"It will create 200 new jobs," Rogers said, "and bring 2,000 people to" the New Center area each day.
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