The City may not be able to plow snow, but look how fast they can destroy a major tourist attraction. Within 90 minutes, an army of city workers and heavy equipment descends on the Project. Police helicopters hover over the scene. Many Detroiters are startled that the city was able to mobilize such a large force of workers and equipment in mere hours. The City Government is flexing its muscles like a schoolyard bully and using Detroit's limited financial resources to do it.
Trucks owned by the city line up and workers begin ripping artwork off the trees.
If the city had given that money to the Heidelberg Project, we could have purchased and renovated one of the homes the city chose to bulldoze and set up a center for art and educational programs for local children - as we planned to do last Fall before the city declared war on the Project and made obtaining funding all but impossible. City officials are not cleaning up a neighborhood, they are waging a personal vendetta against Tyree Guyton - at taxpayers' expense.