"Land Grab," a 2016-released documentary about Hantz Farms, a first-of-its-kind private greening project aimed at beautifying large swaths of Detroit's blighted and formerly city-owned lots, is now available for streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

The film is free to stream for Amazon Prime subscribers and may be purchased by non-subscribers for $4.99 or rented for $2.99.

The DVD is also available for purchase through film's website.

LAND GRAB // Official Trailer from Atlas Industries on Vimeo.

"Land Grab" features interviews and footage -- including some impressive drone shots -- mostly collected between 2013 and 2015. It follows from the inception efforts of business mogul John Hantz as he fights bureaucrats, activists and residents to convince them his vision for Detroit's vast inventory of neglected vacant land is beneficial to all.

Hantz, a resident of Detroit's affluent Indian Village neighborhood, CEO of Hantz Group financial services in Southfield and founder of Hantz Farms -- or Hantz Woodlands as it's also known -- partially funded the film, but didn't censor his critics' point of view.

"He had no influence on the content whatsoever," says director Sean O'Grady, a Saginaw native who now lives in California.

Hantz initially wanted to purchase city-owned Detroit land for urban farming -- apples, carrots and other produce -- but after years of battling legislators and bureaucrats, there was no end in sight.

Hantz scrapped the urban farm idea and decided to simplify. He'd find something to grow that no one could argue over. Trees.

While lots sought by Hantz weren't in use -- and in many cases available to residents for as little as $100 -- no one wanted them.

According to the film, the city had nearly 84,000 parcels -- 76 percent acquired through foreclosure -- when Hantz Farms became an idea.

After Hantz indicated he had interest in the unused land, some people began complaining. Opponents perceived the land deal as exploitation of a poor community through private acquisition of its most valuable resource.

"The major problem that we have is that we have concern about large amounts of land being amassed in the hands of single individuals," Malik Yakini, a founder with D Town farms, another urban agriculture project in west Detroit, says in the film, "particularly wealthy white men, and we think that part of the imbalance we see in the world today has to do with large amounts of wealth being amassed by wealthy white men."

Hantz Farms initially purchased nearly 180 acres from the city of Detroit at a cost of approximately $300 per parcel.

Detroit, then under state-run emergency management, finalized the sale in the fall of 2013. The agreement called for Hantz Farms over two years to demolish 50 blighted houses on its newly purchased lots, clear the land of unruly weeds and trash and then maintain them with regular mowing and other maintenance.

The city issued a certificate of completion to Hantz Farms, satisfied the company did what it said it would, in December 2014.

In May of this year, there was speculation that Hantz Farms might be in the market to sell all or portions of its acquired lands after a business card advertising parcels were passed out at a real estate investment conference in Detroit.

Hantz Farms representatives told Crain's Detroit that the cards weren't approved by John Hantz and the land is not for sale.