As the massive setup around the NFL Draft in Detroit is coming down piece by piece, most of it will go back to the inventory of the rental companies, but hundreds of tons of material custom-made for the event will soon have a second home.
So we want to recover as much as we can, try to make sure that the money and the use associated with those products stays local to the largest extent possible. And it truly is, you know, just by the very nature of the way events work, something that is going to stay completely within the Detroit metro area
Ryan Sclar, Manager, Strategy & Implementation - ENGIE Impact
So, the NFL sought out local non-profits that could find a way to repurpose the raw material. Over the next three days, Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County will make several trips to the footprint in search of the lumber, astroturf and mesh.