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In this newsletter: As the region’s largest universities look to transform an aging mill site in Hazelwood into a pioneering biotech center, local residents want to ensure their voices shape the conversation ([link removed]) .
Also, a Pittsburgh couple wanted their three children to experience Appalachia’s Americana vibe, in all of its quietly staggering beauty and extraordinary humility. They set out on a 1,700-mile loop that ticked off eight Appalachian states ([link removed]) . Our news partner, 100 Days in Appalachia, reports.
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** What will Hazelwood’s rebranding as a ‘bio valley’ mean for its current residents? ([link removed])
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Hazelwood may be a food desert, but in the neighborhood’s mostly vacant commercial corridor, you can still enjoy a “little taste of France” at a bakery occupying the site of a former grocery store.
The nearest grocery store is a Giant Eagle a mile and a half up the hill in Greenfield, and some longtime residents like Saundra Cole-McKamey, 58, wonder who the bakery is for.
“We didn't ask for that at all,” she said. It’s a small example of development doesn’t “ask what we want. They put in here what they think we want.” Some want to know whether coming development will reflect neighborhood needs.
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