The Dispatch wrote Franklinton revitalization project sits idle
Sunday, March 23, 2008
BY ROBERT VITALE
Nearly a year after Mayor Michael B. Coleman announced a $23 million privately funded project to turn land around the former B&T Metals plant into loft condos and apartments, town houses, gallery space and a small theater, little has changed in the three-block area west of Downtown.
Los Angeles developer Lance Robbins, who envisions the neighborhood as a moderately priced artists’ colony, says his plan is still a go.
Jim Sweeney, executive director of the Franklinton Development Association, said he has received regular updates from Robbins on plans for the development.
The biggest hurdles right now, Robbins said, are overcoming Franklinton’s battered image and the economy’s battered housing market.
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