The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy has purchased 22 acres of land key
to their plans for the West Riverfront from the Detroit Free Press.
Excerpt:
[US Senator Carl] Levin secured $29 million in federal money for land acquisition,
RiverWalk construction and other spending on the west riverfront, by
attaching an add-on to a transportation bill in 2005.
"This is a fabulous development for the city," Levin said Tuesday of
the newspaper land sale. "Our riverfront, which has been underdeveloped
for 50 or 100 years, is now blossoming. Soon people and families are
going to be able to walk it and fish it and have a place to congregate."
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