EPA brownfield funds awarded to Eastern Market, Globe Building

The Globe Building and Eastern Market were among four sites in Detroit awarded $800,000 in brownfield assessment funds from the EPA.

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Word of the grant was welcomed by City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel.

"That's good news," Cockrel said Monday. "That's really significant especially with all the development that's going on in the Eastern Market area."

Cockrel said the EPA grants will help the city better deal "with the kind of industrial problem caused by generations of industrial pollution left behind.

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