The Belle Isle Conservancy is like Switzerland. It will work for the greater good of the island park with nearly everyone who comes to the table.
An excerpt from this Q&A with the group's president Michele Hodges:
It’s important to be open to options and find the model that is going to work best for the city of Detroit. Certainly, one of the models is the Central Park Conservancy (in New York). When they started out in the 1980s, Central Park was in far worse condition than Belle Isle. And they found one project, their
Dairy Barn, which was their starting point, and look where they’ve come since then.
They've come a long way, indeed. Read on and watch the video
here.