http://freep.com/article/20090903/NE...-make-big-cuts

Just got the word this morning in a meeting at St. Aloysius. The Archdiocese of Detroit is cutting 29% of its work force. We won't know until November who is getting the axe.

Consequently, the Gabriel Richard Building @ 305 Michigan Ave. [[which they have spent a year and a half renovating) will be vacated and put up for sale. Employees who survive the cut will be relocated to the site of the old St. Martin DePorres High School near Sacred Heart Major Seminary.

Also the St. Aloysius warming center at 1209 Washington Blvd will be vacated and demolished.

The Archdiocese also owns a slew a vacant storefronts between St. Al's and Grand River.

Eh. I need a glass of wine.