The city is holding a number of sessions across the city to get input from Detroit residents on the improvements they’d like to see in the neighborhood parks targeted for $11.7 million in improvements.
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A session will be held specifically targeted to each council district and held in the evenings in a variety of gathering places in the city (listed below).
Funding for the park improvements will come from $50 million in bond money dating back to the 1980s the City recently discovered had gone unspent.
The meetings are scheduled for:
- District 1 – March 30 from 6 – 7 p.m., Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers
- District 2 – March 30 from 7 – 8 p.m., Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers
- District 3 – April 11 from 5:30 – 7 p.m., Farwell Recreation, 2711 E. Outer Drive
- District 4 – April 5 from 5 – 6 p.m., Butzel Family Center, 7737 Kercheval
- District 5 – April 5 from 6 – 7 p.m., Butzel Family Center, 7737 Kercheval
- District 6 – March 29 from 6 – 7 p.m., Patton Recreation Center, 2301 Woodmere
- District 7 – March 28 from 6 – 7 p.m., Don Bosco Hall, 19321 W. Chicago
The 10 parks that will be renovated this year include Field, Simmons, Bale, Liuzzo, Calimera, Hansen, Latham, Boyer, Mansfield-Diversey and Cross/Tireman-Littlefield.
The remaining 30 will be renovated in 2017.
The details of each of the 40 selected parks and the improvement plan are on the City’s Web site at www.detroitmi.gov/40neighborhoodparks.