The Detroit News. When renovated, the complex will include a museum, library, archives, outdoor pool and banquet hall. For decades, Chaldeans have worked to build businesses, families and communities in Oakland County. The Detroit News Plans for the center on the grounds of the Shenandoah Country Club call for the public course to remain open during construction on the new Chaldean cultural and community center, which could begin construction as early as 2002. The cultural center will be the community's museum, its archives, its library, and its celebration of a culture that can trace its roots from ancient Sumeria through the earliest days of the Detroit auto boom, when parents and grandparents arrived to establish a close-knit merchant community.
Every home has all sorts of artifacts and books.
This is going to be a place where the public is welcome to come in and learn, and where we can teach our own young people. These plans are really creating a lot of excitement in our community. People will come to eat a good meal, enjoy a good game of golf, and maybe along the way, they'll stop by and learn something. As a minority community, we have had to stay together and work hard. I think it will be someplace the community can be very proud of.