Sustainably Reclaimed

Detroit is a failing city with a cycle of job loss and city decay. Leading to difficulty attracting new jobs and growth. sustainably Reclaimed will create jobs by tearing down the 70,000 plus abandoned buildings in Detroit. And turn these buildings into useful reclaimed wood furniture and other consumer products. This breaks the cycle of city decay, by adding creative class jobs to their economy. And removes eye sores that depress property markets and prevent the recovery of the city. This relies entirely on market forces taking unwanted materials and using them as raw materials to create products of real value. Furniture we produce has the added real benefit of offsetting demand in the US market for imported Asian furniture, which typically is the result of unregulated deforestation. This concept is triple bottom line sustainable. Creating socially valuable creative economy jobs in blighted areas. It creates an environmental win by actually preventing deforestation, which is one of the most impactful carbon emission wins you can have. Just using Detroit housing stock and prevent perhaps 1.5 million tons of CO2e. And economically, this has the potential to make sizable profits by up cycling unwanted raw materials into desirable artistic furniture. This concept is market driven in terms of profit. And market mechanisms lead to the carbon savings.