Historic Durfee Middle School On Detroit’s West Side Aims To Become Mixed-Use Community Innovation Center
One of the scourges of Detroit’s depopulation has been the empty school buildings left behind. As students continue to leave the public school district in Detroit, in the wake are left many hulks of buildings smack dab in the neighborhoods of the city. For the last 90 years, the building that houses Durfee Middle School has been serving the community. It would be quite a negative impact to the community for another such structure to meet the same fate. With the elementary and middle school s...