Detroit-Wayne County Port Authority secures funding for new terminal, construction to begin this summer
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by Kelli B. Kavanaugh | Source: ModelD Media
The Detroit Wayne County Port Authority was awarded two transportation grants for its public dock and terminal to be sited at the foot of Bates Street.
The funding allocations, one from the federal government and another from the state, brings its total amount raised for the project to $15 million, enough to construct its first phase.
… “In the short term, we’ll be able to accommodate all vessels that are out there today,” he says. “In the long term, it will be a full-scale, international-slash-domestic terminal.”
Another phase will build an offshore wharf that can dock larger ships than can currently be handled. Kerr says that funding sources have already been identified for the next two phases.
In other port news, the United States Department of Homeland Security has elevated the strategic value of the Port of Detroit from Tier III to a Tier II, which means that it is guaranteed funding on an annual basis from the federal government.
Read the full story about the Terminal plans at ModelD Media >>
