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1 Ex-prison site to be demolished in Plymouth Township
By freep.com- Darrell Clem
Published: 01/25/2017

Work crews this week arrived on a former prison site in Plymouth Township as they prepare to demolish dilapidated buildings, last used in the late 1980s, where the land can be redeveloped to create new jobs and tax revenues.

"It's a great day for Plymouth Township and for western Wayne County," township Supervisor Kurt Heise said, adding later, "This has been a top priority for me to tear this prison down."

E.T. MacKenzie Co. of Grand Ledge has a contract through Oct. 1 to raze what project manager Linn Driver said is about 25 buildings, including larger facilities that housed prisoners and smaller, secondary buildings. The work is occurring on Five Mile Road, west of Beck, on what is part of the former Detroit House of Corrections, dubbed DeHoCo.

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