The Michigan Department of Transportation is reviving plans to replace Interstate 375 in Detroit with a street-level boulevard, but scaling back initial phases of the project and pushing back plans to replace the freeway interchange with I-75.

The reconfigured proposal, presented at a public meeting Thursday night at Eastern Market, includes first constructing a separated storm sewer south of Jefferson Avenue in 2025 and 2026 that would direct stormwater to the Detroit River to reduce burden on the city's waste water treatment system, and — pending approval by the Federal Highway Administration — replacing the sunken 375 freeway with a boulevard from Jefferson to Gratiot in 2027 and 2028.

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