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Case: SLU2023-00238

Address: 9301 Oakland Ave. (PIN: 03002299.)

Proposed Use:

• Previous pace was 700 annually; Detroit now a national leader in replacing lead service lines
• Added work creating opportunity for Detroiters as DWSD hires contractors and more city crews
• DWSD has quickly ramped up pace, now replaci

•  Program has expunged 10,000 convictions since Mayor Duggan created innovative program in 2016
• Project Clean Slate has changed thousands of Detroiters’ lives by removing barrier to opportunity that had existed for many for decades

• Activation along Gratiot near East McNichols includes local vendors, community gathering space, activities and more to showcase long-term potential
• Site will be available for use throughout the summer as a community gathering spot and small business incubat

• Citywide annual cleanup and beautification effort set for Saturdays in May

• Beautification efforts now include distribution of trees, along with flowers

• Nationally renown poet and author will join the City’s First Official Historian to share the richness of the City’s culture, literary and historic genius
• Position of Poet Laureate made possible through the generosity of the Ford Foundation 

• Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) Director Gary Brown was acknowledged in Wahington D.C.