Emails show a Detroit Thermal employee sought two Black residents to speak in support of the project as a co-op leader said they were “playing the diversity card.”

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A Wayne County judge has permanently blocked Detroit Thermal from using property owned by the historic Mies van der Rohe townhome associations in Lafayette Park to run steam service to a nearby high-rise, handing residents a major victory in a yearlong legal fight over easements, trespass, and historic preservation.

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