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Greater Detroit American Heritage River Initiative
Private Sector Leadership
The AHR Initiative has the strong support of many businesses that are helping to make important changes and improvements along the Detroit River. Driving this business interest in the river is an economic imperative: creating a quality of life that attracts and retains the next generation of employees. In that regard, business and industry are increasingly recognizing that there is no better quality of life attraction to offer than a clean and beautiful Detroit River and waterfront.
Private sector leadership and support for the AHR Initiative and the Detroit River is reflected through developments, such as:
 General Motors Corporation building a new front door to its riverfront world headquarters called the Wintergarden; building River East, a mixed-use development of housing, offices, shops, and restaurants; and helping build the Detroit RiverWalk – a 3.5-mile trail between Joe Louis Arena and the Belle Isle Bridge.
- UAW and General Motors building the new UAW-GM Center for Human Resources – the largest industry training facility in North America – on the Detroit River and, as part of this new facility, creating a 900-foot riverfront greenway.
 Ford Motor Company rebuilding its Rouge Complex using principles of sustainable design and helping create linked greenway trails to The Henry Ford, the lower Rouge River, and the Detroit River.
- DTE Energy helping provide match funding for soft engineering at Belle Isle's Blue Heron Lagoon and Lake Muskoday; donating matching funding for a Downriver greenways grant; enhancing habitats at a number of its facilities throughout the region; and planting thousands of trees throughout the region.
- DaimlerChrysler Corporation (now Chrysler LLC) donating a portion of the value of their former 44-acre paint plant site in Trenton to become the gateway to the new Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, including a Visitor's Center and educational facility.
- Solutia using habitat work at its Trenton facility to make the match requirement on a North American Wetlands Conservation Act grant that purchased Calf Island in the Detroit River.
 BASF Corporation using soft engineering techniques to stabilize the shoreline and enhance habitat at its facility in Wyandotte and on Fighting Island, and undertaking a number of brownfield redevelopment projects.
- Danou Enterprises providing money to help construct a mile trail segment of Allen Park's greenway trail that will connect parks throughout the city and the Rouge River
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