By Louis Aguilar
A nonprofit that serves military veterans is facing not-in-my-backyard resistance from some of its potential neighbors in Detroit’s Woodbridge District.
The Michigan Veterans Foundation sold the site that serves as its headquarters in the city’s Cass Corridor last year to make way for the state-of-the-art Red Wings arena and the Wayne State University business school.
The veterans group wants to relocate and build on an empty triangular lot where Grand River Avenue, West Forest Avenue and 14th Street intersect. Several empty buildings are nearby and one of the closest businesses to the location is a party store. The vets group bought the property from Detroit Public Schools last year.
But some residents of the Woodbridge District, a neighborhood west of Wayne State University where property values are steadily rising, are balking.
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