Triumph: The Riverwalk
Sometimes an urban planning success is necessary to mitigate the damage done by an urban planning blunder. In the 1990s, Mayor Dennis Archer pushed the idea of legalized gambling in Detroit, and advocated locating the casinos on the waterfront east of downtown. The city condemned 52 acres in the Warehouse District, devastating the neighborhood and leading to the closure of historic businesses, including the Woodbridge Tavern. In 2002, after the casinos had located elsewhere, the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy was founded to build a continuous, public riverwalk from Joe Louis Arena to the McArthur Bridge and to expand and improve existing park space. One resulting project was Milliken State Park, Michigan's first urban state park, featuring reconstructed wildlife habitat and wetlands that naturally treat stormwater runoff from surrounding parcels.
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