City of Detroit and SLA-led team partner on resident-focused neighborhood framework plan

The City of Detroit has established a promising collaboration with Danish architects and urban planners SLA, local firm Giffels Webster, and consultants Utile, CDAD, and HR&A to address and solve the social and urban challenges of the Gratiot / 7 Mile Neighborhood in Detroit. The team was selected after it won a competition issued by the City of Detroit calling for a multidisciplinary team to help with a new neighborhood framework plan. Photo by SLA."The Gratiot/7 Mile Neighborhood has many challenges. But it also contains many opportunities and much potential to reinvent itself from socially and physically challenged area into a well- functioning community. Drawing on our team’s multidisciplinarity and joint Scandinavian-American roots, we want to create the foundation for a holistic development that will help Gratiot / 7 Mile find its feet again - both physically, socially, culturally and economically," said Rasmus Astrup, Design Principal and Partner in SLA in a statement.  Photo...