The city of Highland Highland Park has a lot of similar problems as Detroit, including blighted blocks.
Now, we are about to see one of those blocks change, as Steve Neavling writes at Motor City Muckraker:
A passionate team of engineers, artists, urban farmers, futurists and others is transforming a blighted block of Highland Park into a sustainable eco-village with solar lights, a marketplace, a healing house, shipping-container architecture, a greenhouse and space for children to learn.
Organizers will unveil details of the Avalon Village project at a groundbreaking beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday at Avalon and Woodward. After an inauguration and speeches, the block will come alive with music and a bonfire from 7-11 p.m.
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