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Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFormer industrial sites in Huntington will soon be getting a facelift thanks to federal grant dollars awarded to the city.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced grants totaling $400,000 for the city of Huntington Tuesday as a part of the agency’s brownfields program. A brownfield in a former industrial or commercial site prohibited from development because of environmental contamination. The grants will allow the city to clean up multiple industrial sites including a property that sits on 3rd avenue just down from Marshall University’s campus.
Earlier this year the city of Huntington was awarded an additional $200,000 by the EPA. That’s $600,000 Huntington will use for redevelopment.
Since 1995, EPA’s Brownfields Program has awarded more than $22 billion for cleanup and redevelopment on brownfield sites across the country.
The Coalfield Development Corporation was also awarded $192,300 to help with development of a job training facility from an old clothing factory near Huntington.
Martinsburg, like Huntington, was also awarded two $200,000 grants. And the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle was awarded three grants totaling $600,000.