[CPEO-BIF] Revitalizing Africatown, Mobile, Alabama

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

$300K EPA grant to help identify and revitalize historic Africatown sites

By LEE PECK
FOX 10 TV-News (Mobile, AL)
April 22, 2021

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -- The City of Mobile -- awarded $300,000 in federal funding to hopefully help revitalize and put unused historical sites in Africatown back into action.

The City of Mobile formally launched the federally-funded program with a virtual kickoff to determine what level of pollution might be in the soil and water in Africatown, with the goal of moving forward with future revitalization of the historic community.

Using a $300,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the city contracted CERM (Corporate Environmental Risk Management) to begin assessing parts of Africatown. The areas currently identified for evaluation include the Clotilda Landing under the Africatown Bridge, the Josephine Allen Housing Complex in the Happy Hills neighborhood, and Lewis Landing on Conception Street, one of 14 points of interest along the Africatown Connections Blueway.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/300k-epa-grant-to-help-identify-and-revitalize-historic-africatown-sites/article_601a0ac0-a3e3-11eb-a7a1-13fc9aff6065.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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