Julie Hinds

Detroit Free Press Pop Culture Critic

"This Old House" will chronicle a second Detroit project on its current season.

The long-running PBS home renovation series announced Wednesday that it will follow the transformation of an abandoned home that's part of the Rehabbed & Ready program, a public-private partnership launched in 2015.

Rehabbed & Ready restores vacant homes and sells them at move-in ready conditions to buyers who commit to reside in them. It's a collaboration between the Detroit Land Bank and Quicken Loans, which provided $5 million in funding, and Home Depot, which restores the sites with help from area contractors.

"This Old House" will focus on a 1930s home that's been empty for a decade and is in the Crary-St. Mary’s section of Detroit's greater Grandmont-Rosedale nieghborhood.

The house, formerly strewn with abandoned objects and trash and stripped of copper pipes and wiring, has been gutted and redone with a new kitchen and two bathrooms plus new plumbing, mechanicals, wiring and landscaping.

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The 10 Detroit-themed episodes of the "This Old House" season begin airing nationally on March 30, 2017 (check Detroit public TV station WTVS for local times). The Motor City arc also will cover the previously announced redo of a 1939 brick house in the Russell Woods neighborhood that's being renovated by a retired Detroit firefighter.

The Rehabbed & Ready website offers more information on the program and current listings.

Contact Detroit Free Press writer Julie Hinds: 313-222-6427 or jhinds@freepress.com.