[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Chicora/Cherokee neighborhood near former Charleston Naval Base, SC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community Groups Collaborate To Shape Redevelopment 


By Barney Blakeney
Charleston Chronicle (SC)
May 29, 2019

Community organizations have come together in the Chicora/Cherokee neighborhood to mitigate the impact of a planned warehouse at Reynolds and Spruill avenues.

As the S.C. Port Authority facility at the former Charleston Naval Base adjacent to the community takes shape, redevelopment and commerce in the area that has been economically depressed since the naval shipyard closed in 1996 is emerging. The $1 billion cost of the new S.C. State Port Authority facility is spurring economic redevelopment. The blighted Chicora/Cherokee community left in the wake of the naval base closure is transitioning to its former working class and middle class character as North Charleston, the state’s third largest city, sheds a rusty manufacturing exterior to take on the luster of a diverse modern and urban community.

Among the organizations working to insure that those who were left behind and have remained are not displaced by redevelopment are the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) and Metanoia Community Development Corporation. Together with the Chicora-Cherokee Neighborhood Association and the Reynolds Avenue Area Merchants Association they reached an agreement with FLSC Properties, LLC and Frontier Logistics, LP which will construct a 600,000-sf warehouse. The developers initially planned to route trucks servicing the warehouse through the Chicora/Cherokee community.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2019/05/29/community-groups-collaborate-to-shape-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>
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