FOIA Friday: Pre-Draft parking lot improvement plans

• Other plans in advance of the national spectacle include infrastructure fixes, trash pickup and more.
• There are lots of promises, pressures and hopes for a transformative impact from the event that drew 312,000 people to Kansas City last year.

State of play: Downtown lots that are owned privately but accessible to the public — and in compliance with city rules — can get planters and landscaping paid for by the DDA, per a letter from the Detroit Economic Growth Corp.'s Maxwell Cameron to the DDA board.

• New bollards and/or fencing will be covered 75% by the DDA, and fixing bollards and fencing, painting and new signs at 50%.
• More than 30 lots were deemed eligible, but negotiations are underway with property owners so the DDA can't give an estimate of how many will participate.
• The public authority has a budget of $900,000 for the program.

Between the lines: We submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for details discussed at public DDA meetings and received documents two business days after our request was received.

The latest: The DDA approved a contractor, Detroit-based Industrial Fence and Landscaping Inc., to do the fencing work last week.

Go deeper: Learn more about how the DDA works.