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Case: SLU2024-00046

Address: 6480 E. Eight Mile Rd. (PIN: 15005121.004)

Proposed Use:

•  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.

• City of Detroit, Visit Detroit have worked for months with partners to ensure Detroiters, Southeast Michigan residents and visitors have access to the NFL Draft
• Planning ahead doesn’t have to mean spending big bucks; park & ride and public transportation will be great

Mayor Mike Duggan has declared Thursday, April 25, 2024, “Honolulu Blue Day” in the City of Detroit.