City of Mobile “Weed and Seed” Officials to Perform Evaluation on Local Business

Jun 18th, 2009

Members of the City of Mobile Weed and Seed Program and the Mobile Police Department will perform a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) analysis of J&J Furniture at 2996 Spring Hill Ave. on Friday, June 19 at 10 a.m. Lt. Keith Stallings will serve as the CPTED evaluator and will provide the business owners with suggestions for preventing crime at their location.

Weed and Seed is a community-based initiative designed to “weed” out problems of neighborhood crime and blight, and “seed” improvements for rebuilding of those neighborhoods. Mobile was one of the first cities in the nation to obtain a Weed and Seed grant. Since the inception of the program in the mid-1990s, the community has put to work more than $2.3 million in federal funds to transform distressed neighborhoods.

A CPTED Training and Certification Conference and Workshop, which is designed to certify officers, civilians working in businesses, and community leaders in ensuring safe neighborhoods and storefronts, is scheduled for June 22-24 at the Brookley Conference Center. The registration fee is $50 and more information can be obtained by calling Sgt. John Sylvester, Enhanced Neighborhood Policing Sergeant for Precinct Three or Mr. Andre Epps, Weed and Seed Facilitator at 208-1936.