Called Ferber Kaufman LifeTown, it serves as a therapy and activity center, and a hub for Friendship Circle's professional staff and volunteers. The building at 6890 Maple Rd. is the group's first permanent home.
LifeTown features a 5,000-sf indoor city Life Village, where children with special needs will learn important life skills by practicing shopping, doing the laundry, waiting in a doctor's office and overall safe behavior. It holds a variety of businesses--a bank, pet store, library, drug store, movie theater and restaurant among them--with operating, completely outfitted interiors run by volunteer shopkeepers.
John Hamburger, vice president of Birmingham-based Sachse Construction--the firm that constructed the building--says he was thrilled to work on "this innovative project for a worthwhile group like the Friendship Circle."
The Life Village is similar to the Junior Achievement Finance Park that Sachse recently completed in Detroit. The building is part of the six-acre Meer Family Friendship Circle Campus.
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