Friday, May 26, 2023

City gets $1.2 million EPA grant for Fry Building clean up; big step forward for Eola project .

NATCHEZ — The City of Natchez has received a $1.2 million Brownfield Clean Up grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use in cleaning up hazardous materials in and around the Fry Building, located at the corner of North Pearl and Franklin streets in downtown Natchez.  "This grant is a very important step forward in the Eola redevelopment," said Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson.  In August 2021, a development team involving Hayes Dent, president of Public Strategies and an affiliate with Endeavour Corp., a development group owned by Randy Roth, and Robert Lubin, who owns the Eola Hotel and originally developed the Magnolia Bluffs Casino, which he has since sold, would renovate and reopen the 1927-built Eola Hotel. Dickie Brennan, the famed New Orleans restaurateur was and remains a part of the Eola project, said Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson.

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