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By Veronica Grecu, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

\"RecoveryPark<\/a>

RecoveryPark Farms Detroit – rendering<\/p><\/div>\n

Plans for a multi-million-dollar urban agriculture project in Detroit\u2019s east side were announced this week by Mayor Mike Duggan<\/a>, Councilwoman Mary Sheffield and Gary Wozniak, CEO of RecoveryPark<\/a>\u2014a local nonprofit that aims to revitalize the city\u2019s blighted properties by putting Detroit\u2019s residents and resources to work.<\/p>\n

Under the $15 million project, a 22-block area around the former Chene-Ferry Market will be transformed into a center of urban agriculture and hope for marginalized residents with significant barriers to employment. According to Duggan, 35 acres of city-owned land will be leased to the nonprofit organization from the Detroit Land Bank Authority for $105 per acre per year. In exchange, RecoveryPark will secure or demolish all vacant, blighted structures and replace them with massive greenhouses and hoop houses to grow produce.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0RecoveryPark Farms<\/a>\u00a0project will employ nearly 130 individuals within the first three years, 60 percent of who will be Detroit residents that RecoveryPark usually hires: ex-offenders, veterans and recovering addicts. Most of the produce will be sold to retailers, wholesalers and local restaurants such as Cuisine and Wright & Co. of Detroit, Bacco Ristorante of Southfield and Streetside Seafood and The Stand of Birmingham, all of which already purchase fruits and vegetables from RecoveryPark farms.<\/p>\n

The project, which will take five years to complete, has a 60-acre footprint and is bounded byI-94, Chene Street, St. Aubin Street and Forest Avenue.<\/p>\n

The Chene-Ferry Market (also known as the Polish Market) was an open-air market established in the 1850s along with the Eastern Market. The facility has been vacant since 1990.<\/p>\n

Rendering via the City of Detroit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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