From: | "Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net> |
Date: | 9 Mar 2007 14:03:09 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] New Jersey targets BF sites for portfields initiative |
Tainted sites seen as way to aid ports The Record Thursday, March 8, 2007 By HUGH R. MORLEY CARTERET -- New Jersey began a campaign Wednesday to market brownfields areas around the state's ports as a solution to the rising volume of cargo brought to the region by world trade. State officials and business leaders are touting the environmentally tainted sites as prime real estate on which to build distribution and logistics hubs that will boost the local economy. To make their point, the organizers of the effort - called Portfields Initiative - invited 150 government leaders and commercial real estate brokers to a translucent-walled tent erected inside a newly built warehouse on one of the brownfields in Carteret. The four-year-old Portfields Initiative, a partnership between EDA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was designed to create a support network for Port Elizabeth and Port Newark. The Port Authority expects the volume of goods handled by the ports to double in 10 years. As yellow mechanical diggers tore into a red mound of snow-laden earth outside, and a chill wind whistled around the 1.2 million-square-foot empty warehouse, state officials made their pitch. "What we are seeing is a tremendous growth in Port Elizabeth and Port Newark," said Caren Franzini, chief executive officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA). "If we can't handle the cargo, we can't handle the growth." If that happens, she added, importers will send goods through other East Coast ports such as Norfolk, Va., or Savannah, Ga., or they will set up distribution centers in Pennsylvania or Delaware. To help meet the demand, the state targeted 17 brownfield sites within 25 miles of the ports -- in Hudson, Union, Middlesex and Essex counties -- that could each take 350,000 square feet of warehouse or distribution space. For the entire article, see: <http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyOSZmZ2 JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzA4OTU3NyZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI=> Bob Hersh CPEO <<attachment: winmail.dat>> _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
Prev by Date: [CPEO-BIF] MEW Study Area TAG RFP Next by Date: [CPEO-BIF] Newnan, Georgia | |
Prev by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] MEW Study Area TAG RFP Next by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] Newnan, Georgia |