[CPEO-BIF] Affordable hoiusing, Randolph, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield plan draws backers

By Robin Palmer
Barre Montpelier Times Argus (VT)
February 15, 2006

RANDOLPH - Reclaiming a brownfield site for affordable housing in 
downtown Randolph is apparently such an attractive public policy that it 
attracted everyone from the head of the Environmental Protection Agency 
in Boston to the governor and much of his administration to Randolph on 
Tuesday.

The Randolph Area Community Development Corp. is proposing 20 to 30 
townhouse style residences on 4.4 acres of vacant industrial land just 
outside of the community's designated downtown. Brownfields are sites 
that may have industrial contamination.

The property was last part of the Randolph Division of Ethan Allen and, 
noted Harriet Chase of the Randolph Historical Society, had been used 
for furniture making since 1866 when Salisbury Furniture began under 
Franklin Salisbury, his brother and son.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060215/NEWS/602150314/1003

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