Despite Asbestos, Can This Old Davidson Mill Be Redeveloped?

Despite Asbestos, Can This Old Davidson Mill Be Redeveloped?

WFAE Studios

15/03/2021 6:23PM

Episode Synopsis "Despite Asbestos, Can This Old Davidson Mill Be Redeveloped?"

A Charlotte company wants to redevelop the 130-year-old Linden Cotton Mill in downtown Davidson as offices, shops and maybe a brewery or restaurant. But the factory also once made asbestos products, and the five-acre site is contaminated. In Part 3 of WFAE's series Asbestos Town, environmental reporter David Boraks looks at the status of the redevelopment and concern in the historically African American neighborhood around it.

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