[CPEO-BIF] 84 Lumber, McFarland Village, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

84 Lumber Builds Cleans Up
Brownfield, Builds New Plant

WKOW TV-27 News (Madison, WI)
July 20, 2006

The 17 acre site on Terminal Drive has many assets - It's close to the 
beltline, and a rail line runs through it.  But no one wanted to deal 
with the problems you can't see.  Petroleum containers, and below ground 
pipes had to be removed, and the contaminated soil cleaned up.  84 
Lumber CEO and Founder Joseph Hardy saw the potential of the property, 
and in the Spring of 2007, the Company will add another to its 500 
locations nationwide.

Cleaning up the property will cost at least $1.3 million.  The Village 
of McFarland gave $530,000 in Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) and the 
State Department of Commerce awarded 84 Lumber with two brownfield 
grants totalling $650,000.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/news/story/p/pkid/24477

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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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