Reduce, Reuse, Resource: The Creative Reuse Warehouse keeps surplus materials out of the garbage
Page Three, Riverdale No Comments »In the center of the sparse office of the Resource Center, a weathered former residence and warehouse located blocks from the southern border of the city, sits an unusual-looking chair. Bill Hurd, the volunteer in charge of the center’s store this particular Sunday, notes that the chair’s plates are reticulated to mimic the spine of a 5’11” male, each plank meeting the center of the vertebra and providing, in theory, exceptional comfort. (It does.) The chair and three cousins were built from planks taken from the floor of a building slated for destruction, which were then refined and refurbished in the Resource Center’s workshop. “That caught fire about eight years ago,” Hurd says. The center’s remaining reticulated chair, bought at an auction for over $2,000 and immediately re-donated, encapsulates the trajectory of the Resource Center’s glorious past and subdued present. Read the rest of this entry »
