July 3, 2006

Detroit sells land to plug budget

Robin Boyle, Wayne State urban planning professor, comments in an Associated Press story about Mayor Kilpatrick's Administration's intention to sell $30 million in land this fiscal year as part of an effort to close a serious budget deficit. Prominent among the land proposals was a tentative deal to sell the Detroit-owned Rackham Golf Course in the northern suburb of Huntington Woods to developers for up to $11 million. The City Council rejected Kilpatrick's initial proposal on the golf course Friday. "Those holdings represent the heyday of the city," Boyle told the Detroit News, "We are in a new world. It makes accounting sense."

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