November 3, 2023
In this article, Kea Wilson of Streets Blog USA speaks about Detroit’s “I-375 project” in light of a recent $100-million federal grant to study replacing a highway with a boulevard awarded to Detroit. Wilson discusses Paradise Valley and Black Bottom neighborhoods, a formally predominantly Black community displaced by the I-375 freeway and Detroit urban reneweal efforts. The article also mentions Detroit Future City’s findings of the majority of Black Detroiters who were displaced as a result of the city’s urban renewal policies.
