Detroit — City officials gathered on a sunny Monday afternoon in Detroit's Van Dyke/Lynch neighborhood, where they broke ground on the first of five highly-anticipated solar fields.

"It's a perfect day for solar energy," Mayor Mike Duggan said during a ceremony near the corner of Elgin and Gilbo streets on the city's east side, in the heart of what will be a 42-acre solar field.

A total of five neighborhoods are set to receive solar fields including Gratiot Findlay, State Fair, Greenfield Park, Houston Whittier and Van Dyke Lynch.

This work is a part of the Solar Neighborhoods initiative, through which 165 acres of blighted, vacant land throughout the city will be converted into solar array fields that city officials say will completely offset energy costs for 127 municipal buildings a

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