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Fire Chief Billy Hewitt, also president of the Tarrant-Pinson Valley Chamber of Commerce, said protecting the creek is important to revitalizing Tarrant. “It’s simply taking a piece of property that has been vacated a long period of time… and putting it back into productive use,” he said. “Taking an eyesore and converting it into something that is nice for the community.”
The site is considered a brownfield property, which means it has a history of environmental contamination but could still be redeveloped. The property was purchased by the late Byrd martin at a public auction. The City is trying to acquire the property from his estate, clean the site and return it to reuse.
City officials would like to convert the property into a green space and a public transportation hub, according to the grant. However, Tarrant will wait for an environmental assessment by the Five Mile Creek Brownfield Assessment Project and the State Department of Public Health before it acquires the property. That review should be completed by early 2006, the grant states.
The City estimates it will take two years to clean the property. The city proposes to contribute $40,000 to the overall $240,000 it estimates it will take to clean the property.
