Article: Dock project to add wharf; $4M addition would help during low water.

Byline: Bill Shea

Detroit's $15 million effort to build a new public passenger ship terminal and dock will also see an additional $4 million to $5 million spent to construct an offshore wharf in the Detroit River.

Such a wharf would offer access to deeper water in times of low water levels, said John Kerr, economic development director for the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, the agency building the new facility and dock.

State and federal approvals are in hand, along with the money, to build a 21,000-square-foot terminal and dock on 1.3 acres southwest of the Renaissance Center and near Hart Plaza off Atwater Street. The site currently is ...

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