The Community Builders, along with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and City, State and Federal officials, joined funders and Corktown residents to break ground on Preserve on Ash I, made possible by a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods grant HUD awarded to the city of Detroit in 2021. The city sought the highly competitive grant anticipating the rising rents that would be coming to Corktown because of Ford’s revitalization of Michigan Central Station and other major investments in the area.