Dec. 26, 2025, 11:00 p.m. ET
Farmington Hills — For Cindy Semrau, Farmington Hills’ makerspace isn’t just a place to enjoy her hobbies.
Since its opening in 2022, Semrau has learned skills to fix things around her home at the makerspace, skills that have helped with everything from redoing a bathroom to fixing concrete. She has also connected with other regulars who come to the space in a former high school on West 12 Mile.
“You should have your home, your work and some other place. I don’t have work, I don’t have religious affiliation, but I want places that I can be that are not just at home,” said Semrau, a West Bloomfield Township retiree who had several sets of chopsticks she made at the makerspace on a cold day in December.
Semrau isn’t the only one outside Farmington and Farmington Hills who uses The Hawk Makerspace, a unique city-owned space where both serious artisans…
