[CPEO-BIF] Traverse City (MI) brownfields spending

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Projects eating up state funds
City brownfield fund could run low on green

By VANESSA McCRAY
Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
February 15, 2006

TRAVERSE CITY - Improvements spurred by redevelopment of five West Front 
Street properties could capture about 80 percent of state funds budgeted 
for work on 17 local contaminated parcels.

The Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will 
consider a work plan at its 9 a.m. meeting today. The plan allots $9.8 
million for projects by the Downtown Development Authority and 
developers Gerald Snowden and Michael Uzelac.

County brownfield director Jean Derenzy said the authority has been 
"very adamant" against using all of its $12.3 million in state economic 
growth funds on the five West Front properties. The work plan leaves 
$2.5 million for the remaining 12 properties on Grandview Parkway and 
Garland Street.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/feb/15funds.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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