“You know, and one of the most important ones is creating jobs, especially here in Detroit, and deconstruction puts ten times as many people to work and that is just on the physical act of deconstructing,” Willer said. “Once we get our hands on it, we create more jobs by adding value to the materials by turning it into furniture.” “We put a stamp on the bottom of each table and it identifies the house in Detroit where the lumber was reclaimed from, so in a sense when you are buying a table, you are getting a piece of Detroit history,” Borsay said.

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