"As of today, we're more than 90 percent done demolishing the refinery infrastructure. It's about a year ahead of schedule actually and all that's left to go are two wastewater treatment facilities that we just recently got the permits for," said Amelia Alcivar. She’s the vice president of corporate affairs for Hilco.
They're planning a Sustainable Logistics and Life Sciences Hub for the 1300-acre site that could bring 19,000 jobs.R. Merriman-Goldring is with"That's going to bring in jobs, but not jobs that folks in the neighborhood have the education or the experience to access," said Merriman-Goldring. She says this is just the beginning of many meetings to come to protect the neighborhood.
"We got to talk about flood protection plans for surrounding neighborhoods, we got to talk about their cleanup plans to remediate all of that heavily contaminated soil that's been accumulating a toxic soup of chemicals for 154 years and we sure got to talk about that development isn't displacing longtime Black residents because that's happening around the city," she said.
Hilco says this is a 10-year-plus project, but they anticipate a groundbreaking before the end of this year on the first phase of construction.
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