Henry Ford Health System plans $500M investment in Detroit

Detroit's Henry Ford Health System plans a $500-million investment on and around its West Grand Boulevard campus, including a 300-acre residential, commercial and retail development and major renovations to the system’s flagship Henry Ford Hospital.

Plans call for two large developments:

• A Community Health Park that would add housing, shops and businesses on 300 acres between the Lodge freeway, West Grand Boulevard, the Ford Freeway and 14th Street.

• Demolition of mostly abandoned homes and businesses south of West Grand Boulevard for possible construction of a doctors' office building and a research building.

Ford has acquired about 85% of the land for this part of the development, mostly along Sterling Street and Trumbull Avenue, said William Schramm, Ford’s senior vice president for business development.

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