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Significant investments are being made to enhance the Ypsilanti area's ability to capture stormwater and add acreage to nature areas that house pollinator prairie gardens. There are seven different projects that are funded over the next two years with grant money. Harry Sheehan is the Chief Deputy Water Resources Commissioner in Washtenaw County and in charge of seeing these projects completed. He joined WEMU's David Fair to discuss the positive impacts these enhancements will make for the environment, and the area’s quality of life.
The city of Detroit has demolished 23,000 vacant homes since 2014, and demolition leaves behind vacant land.One nonprofit has taken on caring for a small slice of those now-empty lots, near the old Michigan State Fairgrounds where Amazon.com Inc. is developing its biggest metro Detroit warehouse…