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University of Detroit high school plans to buy, redevelop Detroit rec center
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University of Detroit Jesuit High School plans to buy a former recreation center from the city of Detroit, renovate it and add athletic fields to its grounds.
The $625,000 property purchase and a new community benefits agreement still require City Council's approval. It's expected to be referred to committee in Tuesday's session.
The private, college-preparatory school for boys would make building improvements at the vacant, 20,500-square-foot Johnson Recreation Center near the intersection of Eight Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue in northwest Detroit. It's about a half mile north of the University of Detroit Jesuit campus.
The school, founded in Detroit in 1877, wants to use the building for locker rooms, gyms and meeting rooms, according to a letter dated Thursday from Alton James, chair of the City Planning Commission, and submitted to City Council. It has plans for the open 10.5 acres around the rec center, too. It would update the Joe Louis Park playground and create three competition-grade fields for soccer and lacrosse.
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Detroit City FC to add suites from shipping containers
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Semi-pro soccer team Detroit City FC, seeking revenue to fund its move to professional status later this year, will add suites made from refurbished industrial shipping containers as VIP seating at its home stadium in Hamtramck.
Four of the steel containers will be placed on newly poured concrete pads behind the goal at the north end of Keyworth Stadium, the school district-owned historic venue used by the wildly popular semi-pro soccer club since 2016. Each of the containers will be divided into three suites that can accommodate 16 people, said Detroit City FC CEO Sean Mann, and seven of the 12 suites have been leased.
The suites can be leased for $10,000 for the season, or per match starting at $800, Mann said.
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Detroit nonprofit founder sees vacant field as 'beacon of hope'
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Detroit — Today, a grass field on 15th Street, on Detroit's west side, is snow-covered but otherwise bare, marked only by a pink sign hinting things soon will be different.
This time next year, weather permitting, tulips will begin their spring bloom, to be followed in the summer by lavender.
Bees will buzz on the far east end of the lot, just close enough to be accessible by anyone interested, but not so close as to scare off anyone. Books will fill a small library. Children will gather for story time.
That lot transformation will come courtesy of NW Goldberg Cares, a nonprofit granted $9,000 by Detroit Future City to build a tulip garden and bring programs to a space that's sat empty since the home on the lot was demolished about three years ago. The NW is short for "northwest."
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