[CPEO-BIF] Anniston Cotton Manufacturing Co. site, Anniston, Alabama

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

DHR construction in west Anniston a ‘huge event’

by Laura Camper
Anniston Star (AL)
August 19, 2011

With the construction of the new Department of Human Resources  
building on the site of a former factory, the Model City is breaking  
new ground in the state and, officials say, leading the way for other  
cities which might want to do the same.

"I'd say it is a huge, huge event for the state of Alabama to have a  
recovered site that's actually being utilized after the fact," said  
Mark Coyle, project manager for Goodwyn Mills Cawood, the  
architecture firm on the project. "That's a rare thing for us."

Anniston received a $400,000 grant to rid the property between 11th  
and 14th streets of the remnants of its industrial days. The property  
had been an industrial site for more than 100 years - its working  
life began around 1880 as the home of Anniston Cotton Manufacturing  
Co. - but has sat unused since 1994. The city obtained the property  
through a tax lien.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/15146677/article-DHR- 
construction-in-west-Anniston-a-‘huge-event’?instance=home_news

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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