The Alcoa plant closed in 2009.

Locals have estimated that the only area still affected by contamination is just offshore from the Alcoa plant.

In fact, mercury contamination at an Alcoa plant led to a fishing ban that has lasted for years in an adjacent part of the bay.

In 1937 he got a job with the Alcoa plant as a replacement for striking workers.

His father left his job as a school principal to work as a safety officer in a nearby Alcoa plant because it paid better.

At the Alcoa plant alone, there are seven on-site hazardous waste sites.

The area has been hit by hundreds of layoffs at General Motors and Alcoa plants.

Last spring, a dispute over delayed paychecks in one Alcoa plant here set off a brief work stoppage.

Historic designation does not save landmark buildings from the wrecking ball if they are in private hands, as is the case with the Alcoa plant.

Preliminary plans call for replacing the Alcoa plant with 400 rental apartments in three mid-rise structures.