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A long-vacant plot of land along the Jeffries Freeway has come alive. It’s been two years since the announcement that the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights would build a new training center in the city of Detroit, part of an effort to get more Detroiters into the construction trades workforce.

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Despite some delays because of the pandemic, the training center is rolling toward completion with carpenter trainees helping build it. There are hopes the training center can be a catalyst to revive a west side neighborhood while providing more workers to sustain the city’s building boom. One Detroit Senior Producer Bill Kubota reports.

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