There was a similar story on Fox 2 recently about a group of students who turned a vacant lot into a place to play horseshoes. I like these kinds of stories because they show how simple and cheap it can be to reclaim a little bit of the vacant space in Detroit. Obviously, this doesn't solve the whole problem -- there's at least 70,000 vacant lots in the city -- but it's not a bad way to start.

http://thinkdetroit.blogspot.com/200...cant-lots.html