So, how will Corktown’s development affect the Great Lakes? The idyllic answer is it won’t. If Ford continues to follow through on its promise for crafting Corktown sustainably, then the Great Lakes will be left to their own devices.

As Ford CEO Jim Hackett remarked during the event, “I know Bill [Ford’s] grandchildren, great-grandchildren… will be as proud as I am of what generations of Ford employees did as they took us somewhere bold and new.”

One can only hope that Hackett’s statement proves itself true for the sake of the waters that surround Detroit and travel through the Great Lakes.

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Published on Great Lakes Now on July 4th, 2018

Full Piece: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2018/07/the-environmental-impact-of-fords-new-plans-in-detroits-corktown/