Concrete Change

Nestled in the iconic Eastern Market District in Detroit, Sacred Heart Church was built in 1875 and declared a Michigan State Historical Site one hundred years later. Like many of Detroit’s historic sites, Sacred Heart was built long before the city’s present challenges with stormwater and infrastructure, and its parking lot has become an all-too familiar sight in the Detroit urban landscape: a vast, concrete expanse with moss growing up through the cracked pavement, spotted by large puddles of standing water with nowhere to go save the city’s overtaxed water system.
But we see a different vision for this parking lot; one with trees, native plants and green spaces designed to capture stormwater runoff.
Visit nature.org/detroit to learn more.