http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletche...an_Riding_Club
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119067100738737868.html
If it can work in Philadelphia, it could work in Detroit.
Also there are 'creative' ways of keeping costs down.
For decades, Fletcher Street and most of the city's horsemen were largely ignored by officials. Stables came and went over the years, but there has always been vacant land to claim or another stable to squeeze into.
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