DETROIT (FOX 2) – Detroit’s historic William E. Higginbotham School was around for the early boom of the auto industry and growth of the city, catering to residents living in the outskirts in the early 1900s.
It served as an education center during periods of redlining and Detroit’s resurgence from the Great Depression to WWII.
These days, the Eight Mile-Wyoming neighborhood school sits vacant and blighted, a crumbling reminder of darker days in Detroit. But a brighter future is on the horizon for the old building, which will be converted into affordable housing. …