Listen • 7:35 1 of 3 Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates) 2 of 3 Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates) 3 of 3 Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates)
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.