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Greener Greens
When Joen Brambilla was growing up in St. Joseph, Benton Harbor was in vogue.
“Benton Harbor was the town where everyone came to go shopping,” Brambilla says. “They had all the big stores and two shopping malls. It was the place to go.”
She married and moved away and while she was gone, the city’s reputation went from fashionable to failure. In the mid-1980s, six manufacturing plants—including Whirlpool’s largest appliance manufacturing facility in the world—closed within an 18-month period. The plant closures meant the loss of more than 5,500 jobs and turned the city into a ghost town.
Brambilla returned to the area in 1995 and went to work for Cornerstone Alliance in downtown Benton Harbor. “I worked on Main Street and there were no cars there. I told my neighbor where I worked and he said, ‘You can’t go to work there.’”
The plant closures also left behind environmental ruin. A foundry, steel companies, an old city dump, appliance factories and an aircraft component manufacturing site contaminated with mercury and radium were among the remains on the 600 vacant acres bridging St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. The pollution on the aircraft manufacturing site was so severe, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deemed it a Superfund site, defining it as one of the most polluted in the nation. “It was devastating,” Brambilla says. “It was a town you couldn’t even go into.”
But locals weren’t about to let it die.
In the late 1980s, community and business leaders commissioned a study on how to bring new jobs, housing and recreational opportunities to the area. The study recommended changes in downtown Benton Harbor first, followed by developing the 600 acres that once thrived as a manufacturing hub of the community to once again serve as the city’s economic engine.
The Whirlpool Foundation, Cornerstone Alliance and the Alliance for World-Class Communities worked together and formed Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment, a nonprofit entity charged with serving as master developer of the project.
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