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Extreme Home Green Makeover: Fair Park’s Congo Street Gets a Face-Lift

Really heart-warming story; twenty five young people from TREC’s (that’s the Texas Real Estate Council, an active group of commercial real estate dynamos) Associate Leadership Council de-constructed, by hand, a 90 year old delapidated house at 4523 Congo Street in Jubilee, an historic African-American neighborhood near Fair Park, all of 525 square feet, and re-built it totally green saving and re-using as much of the original historical home as possible. Here is what they got : an 880 square foot LEED-certified home. Shades of Extreme Home Makeover. Way too cool, can we do more of this?

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posted by Candy Evans | May 31st, 2009 10:00am | filed under Associated Leadership Council, TREC, Texas Real Estate Council, home makeover | 1 Comment »

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