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$500,000 Grant To Assess East Side Neighborhood

DETROIT-As many as 3,000 new homes could some day fill a 1,200-acre area on the city's far east side, depending on how much illegal dumping has contaminated the site.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on September 16, 2004

DETROIT-The city is using a $500,000 state grant to determine what needs to be done to start a revitalization plan for several abandoned blocks on the city’s far east side. The first task facing city planners is to determine just how bad illegal dumping has contaminated the site.

The state Department of Environmental Quality recently awarded $500,000 from a brownfield redevelopment grant to conduct an environmental assessment study on the Far East Side Redevelopment Project. The redevelopment project is considered to be thecity’s–as well as one of the nation’s–largest efforts to revive a blighted urban neighborhood, some 1,200 acres bordered by Jefferson, Warren, Conner and Alter.

The city will first pay to survey a section of the area that has been identified for housing. The state will then reimburse the city.

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