[CPEO-BIF] Old mill site, Kitson Street, Greenwood, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

TIME TO GET STARTED
NEO Corp. gear arrives at site; city manager says work will ramp up

By CHRIS TRAINOR
Greenwood Index Journal (SC)
November 13, 2012

For so long, many residents of the historic Greenwood Mill Village  
looked upon the old mill site on Kitson Street with disdain.

The site - with its unkempt rubble piles of jagged stone and wood,  
leaning smokestack, dilapidated vestiges of buildings and various  
other wreckage - has, for years, looked like a war-torn wasteland,  
unquestionably a blight amid an otherwise charming neighborhood.

On Monday, at long last, work crews that will eventually clean up the  
rubble began to mobilize.

Representatives of the NEO Corp., the company the city contracted to  
remove the rubble, arrived at the site Monday. NEO Corp. equipment  
was spotted on the site at midday, and a NEO sign was placed on the  
chain link fence surrounding the property. Also, "Danger - Do Not  
Enter Construction Site" signs were placed on the fencing surrounding  
the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.indexjournal.com/main.asp? 
Search=1&ArticleID=15105&SectionID=4&SubSectionID=40&S=1


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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