[CPEO-BIF] Powhatan Place redevelopment, Ranson, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ranson ready to restart downtown centerpiece redevelopment


by TIM COOK
Martinsburg Journal *WV)
June  6, 2017

RANSON - The crumbling brick shells of long-abandoned factory buildings were torn down years ago. The industrial lead and asbestos contaminants were laboriously and expensively removed. Countless truckloads of dirt leftover from area construction projects– and a few cemeteries — have filled and leveled off the site. 

Now, after an unnaturally green slurry mix was sprayed there several days ago, the needle-like shoots of grass have started to spike through the pebbly ground. 

“If it becomes nothing more than a park, then it is better than what it was before,” reflected Ranson Mayor Keith “Duke” Pierson. 

This is the nearly nine-acre Powhatan Place brownfield industrial foundry redevelopment, the centerpiece if not the crown jewel of Ranson’s Old Town corridor conspicuously fronting North Mildred Street for about 350 feet.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journal-news.net/news/local-news/2017/06/ranson-ready-to-restart-downtown-centerpiece-redevelopment/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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