[CPEO-BIF] Honeywell (North Tampa, FL) plan questioned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans for plant vex residents

Honeywell wants tax breaks to decontaminate and redevelop the land. 
Neighbors are wary.

AMBER MOBLEY
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
July 30, 2006

NORTH TAMPA - Angered and anxious for answers, Egypt Lake residents 
gathered Thursday to hear a company's plans for a local industrial site 
it polluted and abandoned decades ago. The former Honeywell plant is in 
many of their back yards.

Soon, retail and office space could occupy the site near the southwest 
corner of Waters and Himes avenues, company attorney Laurel Lockett said.

That is, if county commissioners approve the company's request to 
designate the 21.48 acres as a "brownfield," a government classification 
that will speed the site's redevelopment.

Honeywell - a maker of defense, transportation and electronics 
components - polluted the soil, groundwater and a nearby lake from 1965 
to 1983.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/30/Northoftampa/Plans_for_plant_vex_r.shtml

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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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