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 …
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Asbestos Town
Old factory complexes across North Carolina are finding new lives, but in downtown Davidson, developers have tried for years to redevelop an aging cotton mill without success. That's because cancer-causing asbestos is buried on the site. In a three-part series, WFAE reporter David Boraks looks at the history of asbestos in Davidson, the attempts to renovate the mill and how contamination in the historically Black neighborhood nearby has stirred up old tensions.
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Federal environmental officials say they've finished testing more than 100 additional properties around an old asbestos mill in Davidson. Only six --… …
