Ypsilanti's Growing Hope to build first of several hoop houses

Concentrate, 8/14/2008

There's no hula in the hoop house about to be built near downtown Ypsilanti.

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More buildings are going up at Growing Hope near downtown Ypsilanti.

The non-profit is set to build its first hoop house on the weekend (Friday and Saturday) of Aug. 23. What's a hoop house? A green house that looks like a half moon. This structure will be the main building for the local agricultural organization, measuring 30 by 96 feet and providing nearly 2,000 square feet of growing space.

"It's really, really big," says Amanda Maria Edmunds, executive director of Growing Hope. "It's gianormous. That would be the accurate term for it."

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