Property Owners Join the East End Land Fight
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Two East End Houston neighborhoods have now gone to federal court to join the battle to stop plans to use more than 50 million tax dollars on a massive public housing project on the banks of Buffalo Bayou.
The East End on the Bayou Community Association and The Reserve at East End Property Owners Association have joined a lawsuit filed in April of this year against the City, the mayor, and the Houston Housing Authority by longtime East End developer Alan Atkinson.
The East End project, known as 800 Middle Street, includes a shocking ten million dollars for 5 acres of land in the shadows of the old Velasco Incinerator. A Dolcefino Consulting investigation helped expose the contamination history of the land in a series of reports you can see on www.dolcefino.com.
The new court filings highlight neighborhood concerns about the frightening factual allegations of dangerous levels of heavy metal contaminates and “lead in concentrations four times the allowable contact limits”. Video captured by Dolcefino Consulting showed exposed walls of toxic ash leaking into Buffalo Bayou
Attorneys for the POAs state that the City “acted to favor private commercial interests within the proposed EaDo 800 Lofts site by using federal HUD dollars to acquire property for which the purposes of said funds cannot be completed.” The lawsuit goes on to detail lack of due diligence for purchasing the site and states “irreparable harm will occur if the funds are delivered to the City”.
Dolcefino Consulting has shown former Houston Housing Authority Chairman Lance Gilliam and the wife of County Commissioner Rodney Ellis stand to financially profit from the toxic East End land deal.
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