Grand Circus Park improvements include Woodward median

KIRK PINHO

Changes are coming to Grand Circus Park downtown.

e Downtown Detroit Partnership is proposing to install a median between the park’s two halves on Woodward Avenue, new sidewalks and landscaping, new public restrooms, a food and beverage space, and relocating monuments and obe- lisks as part of a multi-phase master plan that has been in the works for several years. e Historic District Commission next week will consider some of the changes put forward by the DDP.

Bob Gregory, president of the Detroit 300 Conservancy, which is the DDP subsidiary that operates public spaces like Grand Circus Park, and senior consultant for strategy and public space for the DDP, said the rst phase of the $16 million master plan for the park is expected to cost about $4 million. at’s coming from a $475,000 Downtown Development Authority grant; $850,000 in Revitalization and Placemaking Program money, which is funded with $100 million the state received in American Rescue Plan Act money through the Michigan