YOU Can Help: Cooley Legacy Continues!

18875 Ryan Road,Detroit MI 48234

14 March, 2022

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Show your support of the partnership between Life Remodeled and the Cooley community at the DPSCD listening session on March 14 at Pershing! The DPSCD Board of Education has frozen the sale of their vacant school buildings for more than 15 months. Now the Board is considering selling Cooley High School, and they are prepared to hear from Detroit residents on this matter. Do you support Life Remodeled partnering with Cooley community members and alumni to repurpose Cooley High School into a one-stop-hub of opportunities for entire families to thrive? If so, will you attend the DPSCD district-wide listening session on March 14 (6pm - 8pm) at Pershing High School (IN PERSON)? In November of last year, Life Remodeled held a press conference to announce our desire and proposed plan to develop Cooley with nearly 150 Cooley community members, alumni and Life Remodeled partners from Durfee, Cody, Osborn and Denby communities present. We believe at least 150 people will attend this IMPORTANT upcoming DPSCD listening session on March 14th, and we hope that includes YOU! We purchased Cooley Legacy Continues t-shirts for everyone who will support this project by attending this meeting. If you desire to pick up your t-shirt in advance, we will distribute them at the Durfee Innovation Society (2470 Collingwood St, Detroit, MI 48206) March 7th - 11th from 9am - 5pm each day. Or, we will bring your shirt with us on the night of the meeting at Pershing, and we will give it to you then. Cooley has been sitting vacant since 2010… the windows and much of the copper have been ripped out, there was a fire that decimated the auditorium in 2017, and there are substantial active roof leaks that are on the verge of destroying the very foundation of this building beyond repair if they aren’t repaired SOON… even though all of this is true, the story of Cooley High School does not have to be over. We have an opportunity to put this facility to use - in ways community members want. Which is why we are committed to a $37.5 million repurposing project. The Cooley legacy can continue! Life Remodeled has supported and sponsored numerous events and resource distributions in the Cooley community, including multiple food drives and cleanups, Trunk or Treat, a Stop the Violence rally with more than 250 participants, hosting the Cooley Alumni Meet and Greet at the DIS with more than 300 alumni, the distribution of 300 turkeys for Thanksgiving, and we threw a Cooley Alumni Christmas Party. After more than two years of listening and sharing, we have heard clearly what many Cooley residents desire to be done with Cooley High School, and there is strong unity in the community as it relates to partnering with Life Remodeled. We have even received petition signatures from more than 1,000 Cooley residents and alumni who are ready for Life Remodeled to begin the work, and more than 20 letters of support from key Cooley community leaders and several of Detroit’s most influential civic leaders. Additionally, we have signed LOI agreements with seven dynamic organizations who have committed to lease a total of 75% of the building and deliver impactful opportunities directly requested by Cooley community members. Will you join us March 14? Please arrive 15 minutes early. For more info on this project, please visit CooleyLegacyContinues.com