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Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit. Photo credit: Outlier Media

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The factory’s long shadow

Cynthia Lowe spent years pushing the city to do something about federal air quality violations at what was the abandoned headquarters of the American Motors Corp. and is now the warehouse complex. A pile of industrial waste on the site was “so high you could ski,” she said.

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