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  2. Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District - Wikipedia

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    [18] [19] In 1999, as a result of unpaid property taxes, the building became the property of the City of Detroit and was re-addressed as 6051 Hastings Street. The building was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 2003. [21] In 2022, the City of Detroit mayor Mike Duggan announced plans to revive the building as Fisher 21 ...

  3. John Eberhard Faber - Wikipedia

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    In 1861, he opened the first lead pencil factory along the East River, between 41st and 43rd streets, Midtown Manhattan. The factory was established under the name of Eberhard Faber. In 1872, a fire destroyed the factory in Manhattan, and the new Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory was built on a site on Kent and West streets in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [2]

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and ...

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    Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...

  5. Historic Detroit factory, set to become housing development ...

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    An ambitious $155 million plan to turn Detroit's long-vacant Fisher Body Plant No. 21 from a dilapidated factory into quality housing was approved Tuesday for nearly $19 million in additional ...

  6. Eberhard Faber - Wikipedia

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    After an 1872 fire, operations moved to the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, across the East River, [1] which was acquired by Staedtler, a stationery company with global presence, in 1978. This factory was acquired by Faber-Castell USA in 1994 before being bought by Newell and eventually rolled into the Paper Mate brand. [2]

  7. Jerome H. Remick and Company Building - Wikipedia

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    The Jerome H. Remick and Company Building is an early 20th-century office building located at 1250 Library Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It later became an annex of the J. L. Hudson Company, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]

  8. New Jersey's General Pencil Pours Its Heart Into Art - AOL

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    Video by Tyler Ribble A rhythmic mechanical whir emanates from the basement of a century-old brick building on Fleet Street in a Jersey City neighborhood that's gentrifying as luxury lofts take ...

  9. Universal Shopping Center - Wikipedia

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    Universal Shopping Center, formerly Universal Mall and Universal City, is a redeveloped open-air power center located in Warren, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The first phase opened in mid-2009 with Target, Burlington Coat Factory, Marshalls, and Petco.