Over the past four years, GreenWays Initiative has awarded 96 grants totaling $13.5 million in Michigan, half of which were awarded to Metro Detroit, says Tom Woiwode, director of GreenWays Initiative. The GreenWays Initiative, a five-year program of the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan launched in 2001, is an effort aimed at expanding and enhancing the region’s natural landscape.
“These grants also require 50 percent matching funds, and over $35 million has been raised from public sources in the Metro Detroit area, about $70 million matched region-wide,” Woiwode says. “And all that money is going towards linking communities and improving the region's quality of life.”
GreenWays Initiative Grants Awarded to Metro Detroit on September 1, 2005
LAND GRANTS
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
Award: $587,947
Purpose: To support the construction of Tri-Centennial Trails in Tri-Centennial State Park.
City of Ecorse
Award: $75,000
Purpose: To support the construction of Phase I of the Ecorse Creek Greenway, from Council Point Park in Lincoln Park to the Detroit River and Dingell Park.
Greater Corktown Development Corp.
Award: $333,000
Purpose: To support the construction of the Corktown-Mexicantown Greenlink.
University Cultural Center Association
Award: $668,000
Purpose: To support the construction of Phase I of the Midtown Greenway Loop.
Township of Van Buren
Award: $75,000
Purpose: To support the construction of a greenway connecting Riggs Heritage Park to Lower Huron Metropark.
PREDEVELOPMENT GRANTS
City of Woodhaven
Award: $20,000
Purpose: To support the final design for three greenways between the city of Woodhaven and the Detroit River.
- Source: Tom Woiwode, Director, GreenWays Initiative
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