[CPEO-BIF] Rhodia site, Louisville, Kentucky

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mixed-use plan for former Rhodia site moves forward

By Jacob Munoz
MSN
November 28, 2024

Earlier this month, Louisville’s Development Review Committee approved a plan to create new buildings on a roughly 6-acre part of the Algonquin neighborhood, bordering the nearby Park Hill community.

Re:land Group, a local Black-owned developer, is leading a project to build affordable housing, commercial space and an outdoor area on the site.

The plan would transform the northern portion of a nearly 17-acre property that’s gone unused for three decades and has a history of chemical activity. The Rhodia company, which at the turn of the century owned the site, commissioned a 2001 report that found hundreds of spills and releases happened between 1974-94.

Jim Beckett, Re:land Group’s managing partner, associated the vacant land with a lack of neighborhood attention. Just across the property is Parkway Place, a public housing complex.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/mixed-use-plan-for-former-rhodia-site-moves-forward/ar-AA1uYFhI

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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
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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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