Mayor Mike Duggan is expected to announce a deal to transfer about 40 acres of city-owned land near Eastern Market to the RecoveryPark farming project.
RecoveryPark is an effort to grow food commercially inside the city and use the profits to support SHAR, a drug addiction recovery agency.
The deal will see the city lease and eventually sell about 400 parcels near Chene and Ferry to RecoveryPark,. The operation will pay $105 per acre per year in lease payments to the city and eventually buy the land for about $3,500 per acre.
The project is bounded by I-94 on the north, Forest on the south, St. Aubin on the west and Chene on the east.
RecoveryPark will build plastic-wrapped hoop houses for growing vegetables year-round on up to 3 acres of the land. In years to come, the effort will construct more permanent growing sheds on the remainder of the land.
