Hantz gets approval to start urban woodlands project in Detroit

October 21, 2013

Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr has approved the sale of some 1,500 blighted parcels of land in the city to the Hantz Woodlands urban agriculture project.

The final approval will allow Hantz to begin razing blighted structures on the east-side parcels and to begin planting hardwood trees for eventual harvesting. The effort has been called the largest urban farming and reforestation project in the U.S.

The Michigan Department of Human Services and Hantz Farms celebrated the approval Friday by demolishing a blighted structure at 3050 Belvidere St. on Detroit’s east side.

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