Excerpt from the Commercial Dispatch, November 21, 2019. Read full article here.
For 10 years, residents who live near the site of the former Kerr-McGee site have waited for something to be done at the old creosote plant that has until now, been a symbol of blight and suffering in the heart of the city.
Now, as clean-up at one part of the 90-acre site nears completion and the clean-up of the main site is set to commence in about a year, residents are naturally eager to see real progress in redeveloping the area.
As Ward 4 councilman Pierre Beard noted, there's been a lot of talk about redevelopment and people are ready to see that talk turn into action.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Multistate Trust, the EPA and the design firm that will plan and market the Superfund site, invited residents to drop by the Trust's community resource center on 14th Avenue to see some concepts for redevelopment and offer their preferences, which will be used to put together a plan.