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Plans for Detroit s largest incinerator would change east side neighborhood
Detroit
Owners of a shuttered waste incinerator on the east side are in talks with the city over a plan to raze the facility as soon as this summer.
Todd Grzech, CEO of Detroit Thermal, told The News on Wednesday that the company, which holds a 14-year lease of the city-owned site on Russell Street, is contemplating a plan to end the lease early, and as a component, embark on what he expects will be a two-year teardown process of the incinerator. We are looking at the beginning of demolition of that facility in a very short period of time. That would cover taking basically everything down to the ground, he said. If people (in the neighborhood) see it physically coming down, it ll get them to believe it. That s the key.