Discover Downtown Middlesboro: Public Meeting on Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Home

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Home. Credit: DDM.

Discover Downtown Middlesboro is continuing efforts to transform the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Home in to a community asset. Built in 1911, this structure has served as housing, a hospital, doctors office, and had a number of apartments at one time. The building has been vacant for several years now awaiting a complete rehabilitation.

Public notice:

Discover Downtown Middlesboro is preparing an application for the US EPA Brownfield Cleanup Grant program. Their application is for the remediation of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Home at 2020-2026 Cumberland Ave. A copy of this grant proposal, including the draft Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA), is available for public review and comment at City Hall, the Public Library, and on their website http://www.downtownmiddlesboro.org. A public meeting will be held at 2008 Cumberland Ave, commencing at 7:00 P.M. the 9th day of December, 2014. Documents are available for review at the DDM office in City Hall and the Public Library. Comments may be made at the public meeting or by contacting Discover Downtown Middlesboro in writing atdowntownmiddlesboro@gmail.com or via post at P.O. Box 1156, Middlesboro, KY 40965.

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