Standing in front of a group of Manchester residents in the middle of a vacant lot, Stanley Lowe held up a sign:

You didn’t tell the whole story!

The founder of the Manchester Neighbors, a nonprofit that represents the small North Side community, then gestured at his surroundings, empty today, but slated to become a $600 million riverfront development with a Ferris wheel, high-rise apartments and a marina — possibly with floating homes on the Ohio River — within the next few years.

“How do you show and tell everyone all that glitters is gold, and there’s dirt and pollution and garbage beneath our feet?” Mr. Lowe said.

The neighborhood group held an event Thursday to release a report that identifies toxic, contaminated soil and groundwater at the site of the “Esplanade” project, the amb

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