Great Lakes Building ReUse

The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, published a blog entitled “Designing policy for ‘Homes that last’“:

The Winter 2009 issue of the community development journal Shelterforce examines at length a wide range of issues facing housing and community development practitioners in the current economic crisis.
Among the topics covered:  a critique of foundations’ response to [...]

Two of the attendees from GLR 2008 got together and took down a 2300 sq ft abandoned home using hybrid deconstruction in Cleveland, OH. RE-USE Consulting and Urban Lumberjacks of Cleveland (ULOC) used an average of seven workers for 4.5 days (8 hrs per day max.) in the darkest time of the year [...]

Tags: building deconstruction, Dave Bennink, Great Lakes Reuse, hybrid deconstruction, RE-USE Consulting, Urban Lumberjacks of Cleveland

Thanks to Kevin Hayes, manager of the ReSource (Buffalo ReUse’s warehouse and storefront), we now have an up and running blog on this site.
We will have several people with experience in deconstruction, architecture, policy implementation and community projects, writing on the blog.  We hope you will subscribe, read and keep the conversation going.

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I was watching the video footage on Mayor Jay Williams’ keynote address and he referred to a businessman in Youngstown who offers people in decrepit neighborhoods cash incentives to move out of their homes and move into fuller neighborhoods.  Mayor Williams said this guy has a business that takes apart steel mills (??deconstructs??).
After a little [...]

We have developed an interactive wiki site, we have retrieved feedback with survey monkey, we even have the discuss {at} greatlakesreuse(.)org
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