Fifth Third Bank is now sponsoring the expansion of the program into the North End neighborhood, between Woodward Avenue, I-75, Grand Boulevard and Arden Park.

"We're going to take control of our city neighborhood by neighborhood," Mayor Dave Bing said today in announcing the expansion.

Bing highlighted the program after months of talks over the sale of 1,500 vacant east-side parcels to Hantz Woodlands brought forward many residents who complained of difficulty working with the city to purchase abandoned lots beside their homes.

The White Picket Fence program appears to have solved that problem at least in the Southwest Detroit neighborhoods it covered, with about 100 lots sold, and officials hope it will do the same in the North End area, where there are about 300 vacant lots.
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I don't get why this isn't being done citywide