For many of us, a perfect home starts and ends with a giant garage with attached sleeping and eating quarters. Lawns just take up valuable parking space and dining rooms are for people who can’t find good restaurants. With as the ideal, this old service station Siamesed to a duplex is downright palatial. Courtesy of the listing on Trulia, via Curbed Detroit and tipster Merh, the Portage Garage located in Hamtramck has three bays, a hoist and huge extra shop and office spaces. Previously it served as a gas station, but the underground tanks have since been removed. The pictures from the duplex don’t really communicate what’s what (upstairs, downstairs, which unit?), but we see some intact hardwood floors and evidence of non-crackhead tenants.
While any form of continued use and semi-preservation is better than letting it rot, it’d really be a tragedy to see this repurposed for non-automotive uses. Detroit-area Hoons, you know you’ve been looking for a new residence or rental property, right?
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