A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit
28th October 2013
After nearly five years of planning, a large-scale attempt to turn a big chunk of Detroit into an urban forest is now underway. The purchase of more than 1,500 vacant city-owned lots on the city’s lower east side – a total of more than 140 acres – got final approval from Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder last week.
The buyer is Hantz Farms, and it’s a venture of financier John Hantz, who lives in the nearby Indian Village neighborhood. Indian Village is an affluent enclave of manor-scale historic homes, but much of the surrounding area is blighted. Hantz Farms will pay more than $500,000 for the land, which consists of non-contiguous parcels in an area where occupied homes are increasingly surrounding by abandoned properties.
Rich white people who’d rather be surrounded by trees than by non-rich and non-white people. Betcha most of them are Democrats.
October 29th, 2013 at 10:12
Article on Drudge today about the Hollywood elite installing moats. I’m thinking there’s a business opportunity for this new forest in Detroit. You can use the toxic sludge from the abandoned plants to keep the moat from freezing over in the winter.