Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were plenty of people in her eastside Detroit neighborhood. There aren’t as many anymore. On Monday, Mayor Mike Duggan has announced Kobylski's neighborhood as one of three that will receive solar arrays on what is now acres of vacant land.
DETROIT — Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were lots of people living in her eastside Detroit neighborhood. There aren’t as many anymore — and haven’t been for a long time.
Pending approval by the City Council, Kobylski’s Gratiot-Findlay neighborhood eventually will see solar arrays on about 23 acres of land. Not far away, the eastside neighborhood is to get arrays on nearly 41 acres , while the State Fair neighborhood will get arrays on nearly 40 acres on what is now mostly vacant land.
“We have seen property values and income tax revenues grow dramatically in other neighborhoods where the city has made investments,” Mayor Mike Duggan said. “I’m confident our $1.1 million-a-year investment in these long-forgotten neighborhoods will produce a real recovery in these communities.” “When you come outside you get depressed when you see all this trash being dropped,” Anthony said of discarded tires and construction materials. “You go out and clean it up and it’s right back there the next day.”
“There are not very many communities that would say ’You know, the thing that would make this better is a solar farm,’” Mills said. “A neighborhood might want a solar farm there to effectively fight illegal dumping. That’s a really unique way of thinking.”
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