Michigan Radio drops in on Hamtramck’s Hatch

The Hamtramck Artists Collective may have an HQ in the coming year thanks to the city selling them the old police department for one dollar. Excerpt:Chris
Schneider lives in Hamtramck and he is in charge of an artist’s
collective there called Hatch. The group has been looking for a place
to house studios and a gallery for some time. Most of the abandoned
places that they looked at were privately owned and really expensive.
So instead they decided to team up with the city of Hamtramck, and buy
a vacant police station for $1.00.”Hamtramck could have
said…well if we hang on to it for a few more years we may find a
buyer for say, $50,000. But instead of taking that chance, and most
likely that building falling apart and becoming a rat den or worse,
they said we will give it to the art group and let them turn it around.”Listen to the entire piece here.