The city of Mobile and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a community meeting in Africatown to discuss an environmental project that has been ongoing for the last two years.

The project began after the EPA awarded Mobile a grant to redevelop properties also known as “brownfields” that would be challenging to redevelop due to the presence of a hazardous substance or pollutant, the city said in a release Friday.

Mobile received $300,000 from the agency to evaluate seven polluted sites in the area and form cleanup plans. The Africatown grant has focused on an abandoned 40-acre manufacturing facility, a multi-family housing development, a former paper manufacturer and a historic sawmill.

[Read more: EPA grants to help clean up pollution in Africatown, Dothan and Bessemer]

“Brownfield redevelopment creates many benefits for local communities such as increases in residential property value and local tax revenue,” a fact sheet about the project from the city says. “These sites, once cleanup is completed, can be returned to productive use along with job opportunity.”

The meeting is set to take place Oct. 24 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Hope Community Center and will give Mobilians the opportunity to learn about the status of the project and some of the results it has yielded.

Residents unable to attend in person may attend via Zoom or view a recording of the meeting that will be shared afterward on the city’s Facebook page.