In WV Coalfields, Dilapidated sites make way for renewal
WILLIAMSON, WV (AP) – Inside a 1920s-era warehouse in the heart of a once-bustling coalfields hub in Williamson, WV, Brandon Blankenship saws through 8-foot boards pulled up from the ...
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Glass Pickers Gather to Finish Wellsburg, WV, Factory Mural
You didn’t have to be a master artist to pick up a paint brush at the first-ever Brooke Glass Pickers event April 25 in Wellsburg. Organizers encouraged anyone who ...
Read MoreRFQ Released for Firm to Conduct Environmental Assessments
[printfriendly] West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at Marshall University and Marshall University’s Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences On behalf of WVDEP Division of Land Restoration HUNTINGTON, WV ...
Read MorePreserving Brooke Glass’ History
BROOKE COUNTY, W. Va. — The former Brooke Glass Factory in Wellsburg has been idle for some time now. The business development corporation has been working to use that ...
Read MoreNudging the Immovable Object: Huntington Has Momentum on Brownfield Sites
HUNTINGTON – They may be viewed by some as baby steps. But to slay a dragon the size of the four brownfield sites that take up 78 acres in ...
Read MoreStadium Property Being Readied
WEIRTON – The earth was moving at the site of the former Jimmy Carey Stadium this week, as preparations are under way for a possible new tenant at the ...
Read MoreFairmont Community Partners Continue City’s Revitalization Efforts by Opening New Studio
The city of Fairmont and its partners have a new headquarters for their revitalization efforts. The city held a ribbon cutting at a new studio for the “Your Neighborhood, ...
Read MoreHuntington Awarded Grant to Aid Development of Polymer Center
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the City of Huntington a $200,000 planning grant to aid in cleaning up old industrial sites in the city’s Highlawn neighborhood and ...
Read MoreKingwood Moves Ahead with Recycle Center Plan
Kingwood City Council accepted a $2,000 brownfields assistance grant Tuesday, March 10, and agreed to move forward with the purchase of a building for its recycling program. Carrie Staton, ...
Read More$1 Billion Investment Being Considered to Build 2 Beech Bottom Power Plants
A New York energy company is looking at building two natural gas-fired power plants in Beech Bottom, WV, a roughly $1 billion investment that would create 60 high-paying, full-time ...
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