Oudolf Garden Detroit (OGD) has received a $1 million grant from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation for the Oudolf public garden on Belle Isle, which is scheduled to begin construction this summer. The grant puts the project within about $350,000 of the OGD’s $4 million overall funding goal, depending on final construction costs. It supports an […]
Plenty of liter may have piled up on Belle Isle’s waterways over the winter but its long gone thanks to the record 1,401 volunteers who participated in the park’s annual Spring Clean-up. On Saturday morning, April 27, they removed 1,276 lbs. of disposable plastic and other littered items from the canals, lakes and lagoons on the […]
Paris has its Tuileries. New York has its Central Park. “This is our Central Park,” says Beth Crick, Senior Communications Specialist at DTE Energy, of Belle Isle, the 1.534-square mile island that lies on the banks of the city. As the vast expanses of acreage are to other metropolises, so too is the skinny swathe […]