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East Chicago, Indiana is not too far from Gary, IN. It may help people from Gary get jobs, but I don't see positive of the land purchase.
BIgger companies just gets bigger. I don't know much about East Chicago, but I would hate for historical places to be ruined.
NW Indiana residents oppose BP land purchase plans - SFGate
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — Residents who live near BP's sprawling northwestern Indiana oil refinery are vowing to oppose the company's plans to buy up land in their historic neighborhood.
About 60 residents attended a community meeting Wednesday night and most said they oppose BP's plans to buy land from willing sellers in East Chicago's Marktown neighborhood just east of its Whiting oil refinery.
Kimberly Rodriguez, the meeting's leader and a Marktown resident, said she intends to fight the purchase. She told fellow residents their community is "at a point of crisis."
"I think as a community we need to consider moving forward with historic preservation because that's going to help keep us here," Rodriguez said.
The Marktown Preservation Society's website says the neighborhood was designed in 1917 by Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for industrialist Clayton Mark. The community, built to resemble an English village, has been called "the Brigadoon of Industrial Housing."
BP spokesman Tom Keilman told The Times of Munster (Marktown residents vow to fight BP plans : East Chicago Community News ) the company is working to identify property owners in the Marktown area and hopes to begin speaking to them in the near future about whether they would like to sell.
Marktown resident Raquel Ordaz said she worries that if residents begin parting with their homes, it will impact those who want to stay.
"I have a feeling eventually they are going to make us all (move)," she said.
Residents are circulating a petition calling on East Chicago to implement the Marktown Revitalization Plan, a proposal drafted in 2008, and for the city and surrounding industry to help the community restore its architectural heritage.
East Chicago City Councilman Rosendo Cuevas said Wednesday's meeting was to get community consensus about the proposal.
"We want to get united," Cuevas said. "If you guys believe in living in here or believe in doing something different, we got to get together to find out what's best for the community."
Read more: NW Indiana residents oppose BP land purchase plans - SFGate
BIgger companies just gets bigger. I don't know much about East Chicago, but I would hate for historical places to be ruined.
NW Indiana residents oppose BP land purchase plans - SFGate
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — Residents who live near BP's sprawling northwestern Indiana oil refinery are vowing to oppose the company's plans to buy up land in their historic neighborhood.
About 60 residents attended a community meeting Wednesday night and most said they oppose BP's plans to buy land from willing sellers in East Chicago's Marktown neighborhood just east of its Whiting oil refinery.
Kimberly Rodriguez, the meeting's leader and a Marktown resident, said she intends to fight the purchase. She told fellow residents their community is "at a point of crisis."
"I think as a community we need to consider moving forward with historic preservation because that's going to help keep us here," Rodriguez said.
The Marktown Preservation Society's website says the neighborhood was designed in 1917 by Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for industrialist Clayton Mark. The community, built to resemble an English village, has been called "the Brigadoon of Industrial Housing."
BP spokesman Tom Keilman told The Times of Munster (Marktown residents vow to fight BP plans : East Chicago Community News ) the company is working to identify property owners in the Marktown area and hopes to begin speaking to them in the near future about whether they would like to sell.
Marktown resident Raquel Ordaz said she worries that if residents begin parting with their homes, it will impact those who want to stay.
"I have a feeling eventually they are going to make us all (move)," she said.
Residents are circulating a petition calling on East Chicago to implement the Marktown Revitalization Plan, a proposal drafted in 2008, and for the city and surrounding industry to help the community restore its architectural heritage.
East Chicago City Councilman Rosendo Cuevas said Wednesday's meeting was to get community consensus about the proposal.
"We want to get united," Cuevas said. "If you guys believe in living in here or believe in doing something different, we got to get together to find out what's best for the community."
Read more: NW Indiana residents oppose BP land purchase plans - SFGate