Residents, politicians and advocates gathered Friday to demand the closure of a concrete plant that was initially built without proper permits in the middle of a Detroit neighborhood.
The Kronos concrete plant, capable of producing up to 200,000 tons of concrete per year, was built in the Cadillac Heights neighborhood in 2022 by Crown Enterprises, the real estate arm of the Moroun family.
The mixing plant supplies concrete to local projects, such as the new Second Avenue bridge over I-94. Crown had applied for a permit from the city, but before it received one, it built the concrete plant, took it down when ordered to by the city, and reconstructed it with the proper permit…