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 facilitate development of an “advanced polymer center.”
Mayor Steve Williams told a March 9 news conference that Huntington is one of only 20 communities nationwide to receive a grant this year under the EPA’s Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Program.
Williams said the city hopes to redevelop nearly 80 acres of underutilized, former manufacturing facilities along the Ohio River between the Marshall University campus and the Highlawn neighborhood. In addition to the $200,000 planning grant, the Huntington Municipal Development Authority has applied for a $400,000 EPA grant to address the tract’s environmental issues.
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