2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 03:59:13 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Traverse City. Michigan (2 articles)
 
Some residents want TIF to RIP

By Vanessa McCray
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
August 27, 2006

TRAVERSE CITY - Some city residents are calling for an early end to a program that puts tax dollars into downtown projects.

Tax increment financing is a way to pay for public improvements in an area using taxes generated from that district. Some critics say it sucks too much from the city's strapped general fund.

The city's TIF 2 district, located south of the Boardman River in Old Town, expires in 2015. It has no debt and only one major project left on the books: public parking, possibly a deck, in Old Town.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/aug/27tif.htm


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Project funding cut drastically


By CRAIG McCOOL
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
August 27, 2006

PETOSKEY - State officials sharply cut the amount of public money developers would receive to address environmental problems at a downtown condo project.

Brownfield Authority reimbursements for cleanup at the Petoskey Pointe project site now total about $25,000, down from initial estimates that exceeded $400,000.

State Department of Environmental Quality officials informed Emmet County Brownfield Authority administrators of the revised figures last week.

Farmington Hills-based Lake Street Petoskey Associates, the outfit behind the proposal for a 160-unit hotel-condo building downtown, initially proposed to remove 10,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil leftover from a prior automotive filling and service station.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/aug/27petoskey.htm

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