Detroit, with its dozens of square miles of vacant land, potentially could support a vast agricultural industry producing food for a hungry city and region... But both RecoveryPark and the Hantz project took roughly five years to get to this point from their initial proposals. More than 1,000 small nonprofit community and school garden plots dot the city already, but the growth of large-scale agricultural projects in the city has been slowed by fears of corporate land grabs, concerns over soil contamination and the slow pace of city bureaucracy in approving such efforts.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:23:30 +0000
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