[CPEO-BIF] Mount Clemens (MI) "eyesores"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Makeovers planned for two of city's eyesores
Former newspaper building, sugar beet factory to be cleaned up and
renovated by developers

By Mitch Hotts
Macomb Daily (MI)
January 3, 2006

A pair of longstanding eyesores in Mount Clemens -- one in the city's
downtown section and one on the edge of town -- are scheduled to receive
massive makeovers that city officials hope will help revive the business climate.

Developers for the former Macomb Daily building on Cass Avenue in the
city's core area have received a special designation that will freeze
their taxes for the next 12 years, giving them breathing room to launch
a multimillion-dollar renovation.

Also, the city has approved a brownfield redevelopment plan for a former
sugar beet factory on North River Road near Interstate 94 that may
eventually become a shopping center coupled with a restaurant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/010306/loc_oldbuilding001.shtml

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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