2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 27 Mar 2006 15:26:33 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Richmond (CA) condos at former Ford site
 
Sorry, I sent out the wrong link with this article. The correct one is
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/text/article.cfm?issue=03-24-06&storyID=23727

LS

Lenny Siegel wrote:
Richmond Shoreline Condos Face Opposition

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
March 24, 2006

It's a familiar story in Richmond. A developer wants to build expensive condos on what looks like a prime shoreline spot but there's one catch.

There's nasty stuff in the soil.

Unlike Campus Bay to the southeast - the site of a stalled 1,331-unit condo and apartment project - the earth on the western side of Marina Bay hasn't been polluted by a century or more of chemical manufacturing.

The culprit at the proposed Westshore Marina Project was a Ford Motor Co. plant that turned out cars and trucks before and after World War II and 60,000 tanks and other military vehicles during the war itself.

If Toll Brothers has their way, the firm will build 269 condos on a unique waterfront site with choice views of San Francisco Bay, a complement to their other developments in Richmond - including Point Richmond Shores, another controversial project at Brickyard Cove.

...

For the entire article, see

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/text/article.cfm?issue=03-24-06&storyID=23727



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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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