The ADC Center for Civil and Human Rights was recently put up for sale due to financial issues.

DEARBORN – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
of Michigan announced this week that the property and building for the
unfinished American-Arab Center for Civil and Human Rights (ACCHR) has been
posted for sale by owner.

The ADC-Michigan had exhausted all efforts in order to
finish the landmark project, which needed close to $700,000 in funding and
currently sits partially completed on Chase Road in the city near Ford Road.
The recent economic struggle locally and nationally caused donations to
languish, however.

The center’s location was first unveiled in 2007 at a
gathering of about 150 people including numerous local community leaders as
well as ADC Michigan’s special guest Mr. Fahad Mohamad Kafoud, Deputy Chief of
Mission of the State of Qatar. Qatar originally had donated $1 million toward
the project.

In March 2009, a delegation of local community leaders went
to Qatar to meet with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The emir
pledged to the delegation  that
Qatar would see to it that the building, which needed $900,000 to be finished
at that point, would be completed.

However, the funds were never raised and the Embassy of
Qatar in Washington, D.C. later said that the state was not interested in
continuing their support for the center after being contacted.

“With great pain, we inform you that the dream that we
once had to finish and complete is close to dying, putting a sad end to a dream
that we worked hard to achieve,” said Imad Hamad, the regional director of
ADC-Michigan in a statement. Since the building was put up for sale several
offers have been made to purchase it. ADC officials tell The Arab American News
that offers are still being analyzed and a decision will be rendered very soon.