[CPEO-BIF] Wal-Mart in Birmingham’s Titusville neighborhood (Alabama)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Langford backs Wal-Mart deal

Kyle Whitmire
Birmingham Weekly (AL)
May 10, 2007


Jefferson County Commissioner Larry Langford wants to make way for a 
Wal-Mart in Birmingham’s Titusville neighborhood, bucking opposition to 
the project from Commissioner Shelia Smoot and Birmingham City Councilor 
Steven Hoyt. In the commission’s Thursday morning work session, Langford 
put a resolution on the agenda for next Tuesday voicing the commission’s 
blessing for the project.

Last month, Wal-Mart openly expressed interest in the site, which 
Birmingham and Jefferson County had rehabilitated from a brownfield. 
Just west of I-65 in downtown Birmingham, the local governments had paid 
to cleanup industrial waste left by the now-defunct Trinity Steel plant. 
In addition to offering more than the cleanup costs to buy the site, 
Wal-Mart has promised as much as $1 million of investment into the 
surrounding neighborhood. The retailer could bring in more than $4 
million per year in sales taxes and occupational taxes for the city and 
county.

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For the entire article, see
http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/politics-langford-backs-wal-mart-deal/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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