Mayor Mike Duggan on Thursday gathered with other city officials, airport advocates and residents at the airport to unveil the city’s first Airport Layout Plan in three decades. There are no plans to return the airport to commercial use for the general public. Young International Airport is today largely used for flights and storage by private companies. Most homeowners are ready to move, Floyd said, citing overgrowth of trees and fields, poor city services and trash dumping. Young International Airport in preparation for a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the languishing airfield. The City of Detroit plans to soon finish the decades-long effort by acquiring the remaining properties near the Coleman A. “It was real nice out here,” Floyd told BridgeDetroit Thursday as she stood on the edge of a community garden she maintains with other volunteers. Since that time, she’s witnessed the slow death of her neighborhood as the city has bought up properties with the hope of creating a 750-foot safety buffer from the airport’s main runway, leaving much of the community uninhabited and residents relocating in search of safer, cleaner areas. Olivet Street on Detroit’s east side for nearly half a century. Edith Floyd remembers when her neighborhood west of Detroit’s airport was thriving, with grocery stores, professional offices and happy young families.įloyd has lived off Mt.
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