[CPEO-BIF] Calvada Eye reuse (NV)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Calvada Eye plans OK'd

By PHILLIP GOMEZ PVT
Pahrump Valley Times (NV)
May 25, 2005

Nye County commissioners at their last meeting accepted the final report 
from its consultant with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the 
status of the Calvada Eye as a Brownfields demonstration project.

Last November, the Board of Commissioners directed Eileen Christensen to 
undertake the preparation of a reuse plan for the recently acquired 
32-acre Calvada Eye, where earlier this month the Nevada JobConnect for 
Workforce Solutions opened offices at the long-vacant site, formerly the 
real estate headquarters of Preferred Equities Corp.

The Brownfields assessment demonstration pilot grant that funded 
Christensen's work sunsets at the end of June. The Calvada Eye Reuse 
Plan is only the latest component of county projects funded by the 
grant; nine other pilot projects have been in progress in Nye County 
since October 2002. Amargosa Valley, Beatty, Gabbs, Round Mountain and 
Tonopah also have pilot projects geared toward redevelopment of 
Brownfields properties.

"Brownfields" are economic development initiatives to reclaim spoiled or 
potentially spoiled properties due to the presence of past pollution, 
toxic contamination or hazardous materials stored on-site. Nye County 
began its Brownfields initiatives with the Beatty Habitat Trail Project, 
a "green space" habitat restoration and "eco-tourism" enterprise.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/05/25/news/calvadaeye.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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