[CPEO-BIF] Housing in Manchester, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Manchester receives funds to revive brownfield
26 new homes slated on old industrial site

By Diana Nelson Jones,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
September 2, 2006

The Manchester Citizens Corp. yesterday received a $275,000 state grant 
toward redeveloping a vacant 4.3-acre lot in the North Side neighborhood.

Twenty-six new homes are proposed for what is now a massive field of 
weeds and cracked concrete. The site served several factories over many 
decades, including an electric manufacturer and a steel operation.

The grant from the Growing Greener fund will pay for remediation of 
heavy metals, said Tom Hardy, executive director of Manchester Citizens.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06245/718451-53.stm

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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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