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What One Retired Woman Can Do With a Ghost Town Neighborhood in Detroit (WATCH)

What One Retired Woman Can Do With a Ghost Town Neighborhood in Detroit (WATCH)
If this a one-time school administrator has her way, the whole town of Highland Park—much of which now looks like a ghost town—will be reborn.

 

Shamayim Harris is a one-time school administrator who's now leading a group of mostly volunteers in the redevelopment of her Detroit-area neighborhood.

If she has her way, the whole town of Highland Park, Michigan—much of which now looks like a ghost town—will be reborn.

"I want it to be something infectious," she tells CBS's Steve Hartman. "I want other people to know what they can do to their neighborhoods… You can do it!"

(WATCH the video above, from CBS)

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