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A car drives by the Fox theater, one of the many stops planned for the M-1 Rail in Detroit on Monday, May 19, 2014. Officials say Detroit's $140 million light passenger rail project is moving forward toward an expected summer groundbreaking. Officials haven't said exactly when the groundbreaking will take place. Below-ground utility relocation began late last year for the 3.3-mile project. The streetcar line is to start running along Detroit's Woodward Avenue in 2016. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Max Ortiz) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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A car passes by one of the many stops for the M-1 Rail is planned at Woodward Avenue and Mack Avenue in Detroit on Monday, May 19, 2014. Officials say Detroit's $140 million light passenger rail project is moving forward toward an expected summer groundbreaking. Officials haven't said exactly when the groundbreaking will take place. Below-ground utility relocation began late last year for the 3.3-mile project. The streetcar line is to start running along Detroit's Woodward Avenue in 2016. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Max Ortiz) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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A cyclist stops at the corner where one of the many stops for the M-1 Rail is planned at Woodward Avenue and Mack Avenue in Detroit on Monday, May 19, 2014. Officials say Detroit's $140 million light passenger rail project is moving forward toward an expected summer groundbreaking. Officials haven't said exactly when the groundbreaking will take place. Below-ground utility relocation began late last year for the 3.3-mile project. The streetcar line is to start running along Detroit's Woodward Avenue in 2016. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Max Ortiz) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, left, speaks at a news conference in Detroit as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr, listens. The Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity organization is launching an effort to kill the legislative appropriation that is the key to Detroit's bankruptcy settlement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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Cullen Hall, right, 3, and his brother, Oliver Hall, 5, both of Sanford, Mich., carries buckets of mulch as they help plant trees on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Detroit. Volunteers planted one tree at a time, as an entrepreneur began turning a tumble-down neighborhood into an urban forest. John Hantz figures trees are better than blighted neighborhoods. His Woodlands project calls for eventually cleaning up 140 acres and knocking down 50 vacant homes in a city that has thousands. He believes agriculture and forestry can play an important role in Detroit, which hopes to emerge from bankruptcy this year. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Todd McInturf) DETROIT NEWS OUT; NO SALES
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Amy Draybuck, right, 28, of Detroit, plants trees with others at a lot on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Detroit. Volunteers planted one tree at a time, as an entrepreneur began turning a tumble-down neighborhood into an urban forest. John Hantz figures trees are better than blighted neighborhoods. His Woodlands project calls for eventually cleaning up 140 acres and knocking down 50 vacant homes in a city that has thousands. He believes agriculture and forestry can play an important role in Detroit, which hopes to emerge from bankruptcy this year. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Todd McInturf) DETROIT NEWS OUT; NO SALES
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Terrence Lakey, left, 40, his son, Jimeel Lakey, right, 11, both of Redford Mich., and Kamari Bowens, center, 8, plant plant trees on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Detroit. Volunteers planted one tree at a time, as an entrepreneur began turning a tumble-down neighborhood into an urban forest. John Hantz figures trees are better than blighted neighborhoods. His Woodlands project calls for eventually cleaning up 140 acres and knocking down 50 vacant homes in a city that has thousands. He believes agriculture and forestry can play an important role in Detroit, which hopes to emerge from bankruptcy this year. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Todd McInturf) DETROIT NEWS OUT; NO SALES
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In a photo from Thursday, May 15, 2014, John Hantz is seen in east Detroit. A mass tree-planting effort is planned for Saturday, May 17, as part of a large-scale project by a company that wants to put vacant Detroit land to agricultural use. A daylong event is planned by Hantz where volunteers will help plant 15,000 young maple and oak trees on 50 acres of land where crews have been clearing blighted properties for the project. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In a photo from Thursday, May 15, 2014, John Hantz, left, meets with neighborhood resident Ray Anderson in east Detroit. A mass tree-planting effort is planned for Saturday, May 17, in Anderson's neighborhood as part of a large-scale project by a company that wants to put vacant Detroit land to agricultural use. A daylong event is planned by Hantz where volunteers will help plant 15,000 young maple and oak trees on 50 acres of land where crews have been clearing blighted properties for the project. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In a photo from Thursday, May 15, 2014, vacant land in east Detroit is seen. A mass tree-planting effort is planned for Saturday, May 17, as part of a large-scale project by a company that wants to put vacant Detroit land to agricultural use. A daylong event is planned by John Hantz where volunteers will help plant 15,000 young maple and oak trees on 50 acres of land where crews have been clearing blighted properties for the project. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In a photo from Thursday, May 15, 2014, Andy Williams loads trees on a flathead at the Hantz Farms in Detroit. A mass tree-planting effort is planned for Saturday, May 17, as part of a large-scale project by a company that wants to put vacant Detroit land to agricultural use. A daylong event is planned by John Hantz where volunteers will help plant 15,000 young maple and oak trees on 50 acres of land where crews have been clearing blighted properties for the project. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
