Priest calls turning vandalism rubble into charitable gifts ‘a holy thing’ cruxnow.com

Richardson, 50, is not yet a success story, if you judge by what’s in the till at the menswear shop he named Tailored Detroit. Though his taste is impeccable and his confidence unshakeable, his timing was awful: He opened in Eastern Market on Feb. 28, only a few weeks before COVID-19 began to slap a padlock on the entire state. But that old saying about what to do when life hands you lemons? He’s making his lemonade out of rubble and shards of glass, and the priest who runs the Pope Francis Center in Detroit calls what he’s doing “a holy thing,” The Detroit News reports.