After suffering decades of pollution from the former refinery, residents from the surrounding neighborhoods say they want to ensure the redevelopment of the 1,300-acre property benefits the community and doesn’t leave them out of the process.
Jasmine Sessoms, HRP’s senior vice president for corporate affairs, said Thursday the company “remained committed to a CBA” and wanted community input. She said HRP was waiting to receive the coalition’s list of demands, and she noted that the company had made community donations and set up a program to provide training and internships to city students.
“Tell me what you guys want. I’m open for a CBA,” Sessoms said she told the residents at the rally. “Let’s go for it. Send us the demands.” After meetings between the coalition and HRP, coalition organizers in mid-March sent an open letter to HRP laying out requests for starting the CBA negotiation process.
“We have yet to get an agreement to the process, and yet the redevelopment continues to move forward,” said James Gitto, president of West Passyunk Neighbors Association. “We believe Hilco and the city are poised to be who they say they are. … We are here today to ask all parties to practice what they preach and take action.”
Developers aren’t required to enter into CBAs, but proponents of the agreements see them as a potentially powerful tool for preventing detrimental side effects of development, such as gentrification. They’ve been used elsewhere in the city, including for the
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