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Despite Asbestos, Can This Old Davidson Mill Be Redeveloped?


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   Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates)
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   Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates)
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   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. ....

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Davidson's Legacy Of Asbestos Contamination And Distrust


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An aerial photo of the Linden Mill, later the Carolina Asbestos Company, with smokestack, in downtown Davidson. Main Street and Davidson College Presbyterian Church are at the bottom. The photo is probably from the 1950s or 1960s.
Here s a familiar story in the Charlotte region: An old brick textile mill is turned into something hip a brewery, apartments or a food hall. It happens all the time, but attempts to redevelop a 130-year-old cotton mill in downtown Davidson have failed. The problem is cancer-causing asbestos. It s buried on the site, and it s been an environmental hazard to the historically Black neighborhood that surrounds the mill. ....

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'Asbestos Town' 1-Hour Special: A Look At How Contamination Has Affected Davidson Community, Development


Community Conversation:
Join us 7 p.m. tonight for a discussion about what s happening with the town s asbestos removal and the possibility for redevelopment at the old Linden Mill.
The event is free, but
In this hourlong special, we ll hear stories about asbestos at an old, brick textile mill in Davidson, North Carolina, and how redevelopment might solve the problem. We ll learn how asbestos got into both the historically Black neighborhood nearby and elsewhere in town and how it s being cleaned up. And we ll talk to residents worried about how fixing one problem might contribute to another gentrification.
Rather read than listen to the audio? Read the transcript. ....

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Despite Asbestos, Can This Old Davidson Mill Be Redeveloped?


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   Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates)
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   Architects drawings show the concept for a proposed redevelopment of the Linden Cotton Mill in Davidson. (Lat Purser & Associates)
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   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 ....

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