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DETROIT, July 3 (UPI) -- The city of Detroit is having what amounts to a mammoth garage sale to get rid of $30 million worth of unwanted land.
Among the items the city no longer needs are three closed police precincts, a 200-acre summer camp near Brighton and part of Rouge Park, the Detroit News reported Monday.
During the fiscal year just ended, surplus land sales brought the city $32 million but critics of the move worry there may be a case of seller's remorse down the road.
On Friday, City Council members rebuffed Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's first attempt to sell Rackham Golf Course in Huntingon Woods to developers for as much as $11 million.
"I don't think we should act as if we're in such dire straits that we should look to sell off every asset," City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. said.
Last week the city closed on the first phase of a $12 million agreement to sell about 310 acres it owns at the old Detroit House of Corrections site in Plymouth Township.
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