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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bad News For North Corktown Building

In June, a Detroit community group dedicated to rehabilitating a historic North Corktown apartment complex named Spaulding Court celebrated the building's 100th anniversary with an all-day neighborhood party. It was a festive and hopeful moment for the distinctive limestone-capped structure, which over the years had fallen into disrepair and developed a reputation as a hotspot for drugs and crime.

But for the nonprofit organization rehabbing the buildings, the Friends of Spaulding Court, this celebration has been short lived. After a recent examination of their finances, the organization has realized they are in danger of losing the building.

"There is a very big possibility this could be put up at the [Wayne County] property auction in September or October," Jon Koller, 27, the group's president, told The Huffington Post. "We don't want that, but if we don't pay the county the 2009 [back taxes] for the building, we will lose the building."

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