Photo: Saline Mayor Brian Marl speaks during a community meeting at The 109 Cultural Exchange in downtown Saline. Photo by Heather Finch
A $10 million pledge for the Saline Rec Center by the team behind the data center known as The Barn could help reshape one of the area’s most-used public facilities. It has also raised a harder question for residents watching the Saline Township data center project unfold: Who gets to decide what counts as a community benefit?
The pledge was announced June 1, and The Barn team described the money as support for aquatics and childcare improvements at the city-owned Rec Center…