[CPEO-BIF] East Pointe, East Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waterfront commission gives OK to East Pointe


By Alisha A. Pina
Providence Journal (RI)
January 23, 2007


EAST PROVIDENCE - After addressing traffic, financial and 
affordable-housing concerns, the GeoNova Development Corp. was given 
final approval by the city’s Waterfront Development District Commission 
last night.

The local commission, sub-boards of that commission, the Planning Board, 
City Council and several local officials have been meeting with the New 
York-based company for the last five years to hone the project, called 
East Pointe. Charged with overseeing the revitalization of the city’s 
neglected waterfront, the commission has had the most input on the plans 
and design of the 29-acre property.

GeoNova’s property - the former Ocean State Steel site - is south of 
Bourne Avenue, near the Phillipsdale Landing. The company spent the last 
few years cleaning contaminated soil, the result of decades of heavy 
industrial use by Ocean State Steel and its predecessor, Washburn Wire.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/ri/eastprovidence/content/EB_EPROVGEONOVA23_01-23-07_L242B5J.1ccb33f.html

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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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