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New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike lanes, black-owned business, crosswalk, crosswalks, effect of streetscaping on public safety, gardening store, gardening, Detroit, garden stores, neighborhood investment, gilmour garden tools, grand river, grand river avenue, grandmont-rosedale, highland park, home depot, local business, maumee lake region, grand army of the republic building detroit, north rosedale park, native plants, tina castleberry, pages bookshop, traffic violence, streetscaping and public safety, street safety, raised crosswalks, public safety, pedestrian safety

New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.