CBS Detroit reports the Michigan Statewide Carpenters and Millwrights Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund has broken ground on the 147,000-square-foot training facility in the Oakman Boulevard area on Detroit's West Side. The new $30 million, seven-acre facility will consolidate administrative and training operations under one roof. Currently, operations are spread across locations in Warren, Ferndale, Livonia and the Downtown Renaissance Center. The training space will include a 30-booth weld shop, flooring manipulation area, high bay space for Carpenters and Millwrights with an overhead crane, and state-of-the-art classrooms with smart board technology. In addition to training space, the building will offer meeting space for contractor symposiums, career fairs and Apprenticeship Readiness Programs, as well as space for community events. Tom Lutz, who serves as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights, said: “Our new Joint Training Center in Detroit will be our largest school in the State and will ensure Michigan's Carpenters and Millwrights are the most highly-skilled in the Nation, ready to take on any job." Mayor Mike Duggan added: "For Detroit residents, this school will be an opportunity to start a life-long career in the Skilled Trades, debt-free. With all of the construction that is coming to Detroit, this school could not come at a better time."

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