Residents want Cleveland Avenue property cleaned up
The meeting was about development - but the discussion about environmental cleanup dominated the discussion.
Residents in the Thomas Street neighborhood were loud and clear Thursday: They want 1300 Cleveland Avenue environmentally cleaned up.
That was the resounding message from a packed, standing-room-only conference room at the city’s Water Treatment Plant in the neighborhood.
City leaders held the public meeting for the purpose of gathering input from the neighborhood’s residents about what types of non-industrial development residents might like to see.
After a brief presentation on the next steps for the city-owned property that was once the city’s business incubator site and housed industrial uses before then, staff members ran through a survey listing 19 possible uses for the site, ranging from apartments to single-family housing to a senior center.
But there were far more questions from residents gathered there about the cleanup of the site and, more specifically, why exactly it hadn’t happened yet.
