Artist conception of what urban farming could be
Fortune profiles John Hantz and his plan to buy large chunks of land in Detroit and convert it to urban agriculture.
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Hantz Farms plans to farm up to 5,000 acres in Detroit. Others are doing the same on a smaller scale too. Abandoned factories could be used for hydroponic growing “People look at these abandoned houses and think, ‘No one could live there. Let’s tear it down,’ ” said Score, a former business development consultant for [...] Near downtown Detroit. "Urban prairie." Foxes are already returning In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside. Maybe they could have urban gardens and wind turbines in the countryside areas. [...] That’s how it always begins. Artists move into a decimated area, start fixing it up, and that brings more people. Then of course, ten years later they all have to move because the area has been gentrified and the rents are too high! In a way, a strange, new American dream can be found here, [...] Sue discovered this last night on Google maps. Many areas of Detroit now have vacant land where buildings used to be. Unless the trend is reversed, people and business will continue to leave and the process will accelerate. I went to college in Michigan. I want Detroit to come back. It’s given us (at [...] Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. From their The Ruins of Detroit series The Chicago Trib details the dire condition of Detroit. Median house value in Detroit is now $7,500. The city’s bond rating has been downgraded to junk and it could go into receivership. It has no major grocery chain and only two movie [...] |  | ||||
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