merit park groundbreaking
On Friday, May 17th, the Merit team welcomed government officials, neighborhood residents, and Detroit youth to mark the coming construction of Merit Park, which will be located at the Grand River Ave and I-96 intersection.
Prominent news outlets such as Fox 2, Bridge Detroit, Crain's, MLive, and WDIV Local 4 covered the event, further amplifying the anticipation for the park's construction and activities.
From Micah Walker at Bridge Detroit: "The future park will feature a gym with a basketball court, live video production space, and a podcast studio as well as outdoor activities like a splash pad, rock climbing wall, an obstacle course, and a miniature turf field. In addition, nearby shipping containers will host food and retail vendors.
"We're going to have sports programming, community events, placemaking events, concerts and movie nights and things of that nature," said David Merritt, who founded the group with Kuhu Saha, who is Give Merit's Executive Director. "We really want to be a one-stop-shop for the community and there will be a number of benefits that are going to help us physically, educationally, economically, as well as environmentally."
