US (MO): Kansas City aquaponics project dispute resolved
Two sides that spent the summer feuding over a tilapia farm and community garden at 29th Street and Wabash Avenue say they have reached an agreement that will allow the project to go forward.
“I’m pleased that we have moved past our differences,” Harrel Johnson Jr., president of the Kansas City Keys, which owns the project site, said in a joint statement with Dre Taylor, the driving force behind the project. “We have more in common than any issues that may have divided us.”
The project started about a year ago with an idea by Taylor to raise tilapia and fresh vegetables on a corner in a poor neighborhood. He wanted to use young boys in a mentoring group he founded called Males to Men to help.
But when construction was nearly finished, Johnson barred Taylor from the property.
“I’m glad we are back to doing the work we started,” Taylor said Monday at the site.
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