[CPEO-BIF] Hughes Supply, Orlando, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City approves brownfield site to aid Hughes
State cleanup help would clear way for $32M distribution center expansion.

by Jill Krueger
Orlando Business Journal (FL)
March 17, 2006


ORLANDO -- At the request of Hughes Supply Inc., the city of Orlando has 
created a new brownfield designation at Old Winter Garden Road and 
Ferguson Drive in west Orlando.

Hughes requested the zone be added to the Downtown Orlando Enhancement 
District as part of the Florida Brownfields Redevelopment Program. Under 
the state's program, the company would be allowed to receive 
environmental cleanup assistance as part of a $32 million planned 
expansion of its distribution center.

In January, Atlanta-based Home Depot announced it was purchasing Hughes 
(NYSE: HUG) in a $3.47 billion deal. Since then, Home Depot officials 
have indicated that after the Hughes acquisition is complete, the 
wholesale construction materials supplier will stay primarily in Orlando 
and its presence may grow.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2006/03/20/story5.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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