Wednesday, May 26, 1999 | 11:27 a.m.
Vice President Al Gore announced Tuesday a $500,000 low-interest loan to the city of Las Vegas to establish a revolving cleanup fund targeting five square miles of the city's redevelopment area.
The area is bounded by Sahara, Eastern and Owens avenues and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Las Vegas will focus its efforts on several abandoned industrial sites, Mayor Jan Laverty Jones said. The sites include the former National Guard Armory, which will become a community and business center.
The city received a $200,000 seed grant in May 1998 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to identify and assess potential sites.
Gore announced more than $32 million in grants available to 70 communities across the nation to clean up and redevelop so-called brownfields, areas that are abandoned, contaminated and often in depressed areas of cities and isolated rural areas.
The Las Vegas grant was one of 45 revolving loans granted to 63 communities.
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