Time Inc. house in Detroit's West Village will be donated when mag company leaves

Time Inc. purchased a house to report on Detroit's reinvention. When they're all done with Detroit, the magazine company says they will donate the house to a charity.

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Time Inc. has released an interesting tidbit of news about its plan to move journalists into a Detroit house for months of intensive coverage of southeast Michigan.

When the media giant is done with the house, it won’t try to sell it — it plans to donate the dwelling to charity, a Time and Fortune spokesperson said today.

As the Free Press reported Sunday, Time Inc. paid $99,000 for a handsome, 95-year-old house on leafy Parker Avenue, north of E. Jefferson, in the West Village neighborhood next to Indian Village.

Time’s purchase appears to be unprecedented; big American media outlets often have news bureaus in Detroit and other cities, but buying a house and embedding in a neighborhood is a new concept, and Time’s plans are attracting considerable attention nationally.

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