Investors, Mayor see urban farms as a way to grow Detroit

From investors to residents to Mayor Bing, urban farming may be a viable option to set Detroit in a new direction.

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"There is no doubt we're going to shrink the city," Bing said. "You don't need as much land mass to let the 800,000 people live comfortably."

Bing would like to move people from isolated homes in dying neighborhoods to stable areas near the central city.

"There's going to be a lot of angst in some of the neighborhoods that have got to be depopulated, because people have been there for two, three generations," Bing said. "The homes may be paid for and nobody wants to add debt to their situation, but the city can't add debt either."

Those streets and blocks would be closed, houses bulldozed, perhaps making room for orchards, corn and bean fields.

"Will there be urban farming in the next year or two? Yes," Bing said.

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