Detroit selling 92 city parks

Detroit has lost almost half of its population since 1950. And the depopulating metropolis is selling off excess parts, or in this case, parks.

Yep, it's that bad in the Motor City.

From the Detroit Free Press:

One-quarter of Detroit's 367 parks could be sold under a proposal designed to help the city shed dozens of its smallest and most worn-down parks in an effort to aid others and position the land for redevelopment.

More than half of the 92 parks are less than an acre in size -- so-called pocket parks -- tucked in neighborhoods. Some have swing sets, jungle gyms, slides and benches. They make up 124 acres of the city's roughly 6,000 acres of parkland.

Many of those neighborhoods are no longer dense in population and are dominated by urban prairies as the result of demolished homes, conditions Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's administration cites in its proposal.

Selling parks. Detroit's in bad shape.

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