Weeks before elected city and county government officials and workers joined Alton Park residents to clean up the old 45th Street park, city attorneys filed court papers to sell the property for industrial use.
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— Kendrick Jackson (@15Kjackson) April 29, 2015“(The) city would like to sell the property for economic development reasons,” the court documents state. “The property can be developed for industry, thereby creating additional jobs in the community for an economically depressed area.”
City officials filed the action April 4, less than eight weeks before the May 21 cleanup. They did so because of deed restrictions requiring that the land be used only as a public park.
And that was how it was used for some four decades, until city officials closed it.