[CPEO-BIF] Highlawn neighborhood workshop, Huntington, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields project: Highlawn residents have big dreams

By JOSEPHINE MENDEZ
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (WV)
September 28, 2016


HUNTINGTON - Cindy Jeffords, 66, has lived in Huntington's Highlawn neighborhood her whole life.

When she was growing up, Jeffords said Highlawn was viewed in a much more positive light than it is today.

In order to change that image, Jeffords and more than 30 others participated in an interactive public workshop Tuesday night at the Community of Grace United Methodist Church in Highlawn.

Led by the city of Huntington, Huntington Municipal Development Authority and the consulting firm of Stromberg, Garrigan and Associates, residents were asked how Huntington should address its vacant underutilized industrial and brownfields areas around the Highlawn neighborhood.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/brownfields-project-highlawn-residents-have-big-dreams/article_22e117c6-12ee-5f0e-9f95-78999dc4ed75.html

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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