[CPEO-BIF] Mantua (NJ) brownfields pilot

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mantua lays out groundwork for brownfield site


By Allegra Tiver
Gloucester County Times (NJ)
June 1, 2006

MANTUA TWP. -- Fifty acres zoned for redevelopment along Lambs Road were 
the focus of nearly 70 people from across the county, state and nation 
on Wednesday, as the township hosted an all-day event on the National 
Brownfield Association pilot project here.

The day - which included a site walk and presentation by brownfield 
experts -- helped the township lay out the process to prioritize its 
goals for the abandoned 12-acre Struthers Dunn site and adjacent 38-acre 
Lambs Road Associates property.

"Today helped bring complexities down to simple steps," said Robert 
Colangelo, founder and chief executive officer of the National 
Brownfield Association. He said the township must decide what it wants 
to achieve for the community, from options like increasing the tax base, 
creating new jobs and cleaning up blight.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-3/114914980942770.xml&coll=8

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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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