Detroit's New Center neighborhood is getting a bit lively as more people move in and the infrastructure improves.
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New Center Council (NCC) acquired 2990 W. Grand Boulevard last summer, along with the adjacent park and parking lot to the west. The agency has been renovating the commercial building suite by suite and the work is yielding new tenants. Project manager Jim Winters says that activating the building is good for the neighborhood -- which is exactly what NCC is tasked to do. "Being owned by a nonprofit, everything (about the building) flows out to the community."
Winters estimates that about a quarter of the building's 43,000 square feet of leasable space has been improved. Tenants include Lawrence Technological University's Detroit architecture studio, Connections for Deaf Citizens, Detroit Chiropractic, Enviromac, and -- the newest and largest tenant -- SER Metro Careers for Life Center, which occupies the entire fourth floor.
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