[CPEO-BIF] Roanoke, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City plans to turn brown into green
A forum in Roanoke focused on the development potential of former 
industrial land.

By John Cramer
Roanoke Times (VA)
January 23, 2007

The city plans to hire an environmental consultant in February to start 
taking soil samples and doing other environmental assessments.

Unlike Love Canal and other toxic messes, Roanoke's defunct industrial 
tracts are potential investment gold mines, city redevelopment officials 
said Monday night at a "brownfields" public meeting.

More than 30 consultants, developers, neighborhood activists and others 
attended the forum, which focused on the economic and environmental 
basics of brownfields.

The meeting was part of Roanoke's effort to locate and revitalize all of 
its shuttered industrial sites and to attract investors willing to turn 
them into mixed-use developments that include offices, retail, 
entertainment, residences and green space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/101333


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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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