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Hamtramck Trail in the News
The Hamtramck Trail project is moving forward once again.
This is due in part to Hamtramck resident Dick Kaleski and the new Hamtramck Community and Economic Development Director Jason Friedmann. On Monday, both Dick and Jason were on Detroit Today with Craig Fahle. If you missed it, there is an MP3 of the show.
Jason was also highlighted last week in a Model D article.
Here’s a brief description of the Hamtramck Trail from the Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance web site:
The Hamtramck Greenway is a planned 1.5-mile that will eventually connect Downtown Hamtramck with the Dequindre Cut and the Detroit Riverfront. The trail also passes through historic Veterans’ Memorial Park and a diverse community of Polish, Bengali, and Arabic residents. The Trail is a project of Preserve Our Parks, a 10-year old non-profit community organization in Hamtramck, Michigan.
And actually that is just Phase I of the trail. There are tentative plans to expand it further and hopefully integrate it with Hamtramck’s Safe Routes to Schools project.
Of course not all the funding is in place for Phase I, but that is being worked on.