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The 10,500-square-foot space will host 100-plus programs the university runs that involve Detroit. The center is composed mostly of office and common meeting space, but will also provide classrooms.
The article quotes U-M President Mary Sue Coleman as saying the center is intended to serve as a “nucleus for the many different activities we have under way in the city’s neighborhoods, schools and businesses.”
Programs that will be run out of the center include the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s annual Detroit Design Charette, which requires 60 students to come to Detroit for four days each January, and an effort to provide the city with wireless Internet by social work professor Larry Gant.
Charlene Turner, president of the Michigan Neighborhood Partnership, says the center will benefit both the university and the city by addressing human needs in Detroit. Coleman also adds that the physical presence of the university in the city will lead to an increase applications from residents of the city, calling the center a “great recruiting tool.”
The center is located on the ground floor of Orchestra Place at the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Woodward.
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