[CPEO-BIF] Whitehall Leather tannery, Muskegon, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work to start on tannery redevelopment


By Eric Gaertner
Muskegon Chronicle (MI)
May 9, 2007

The preliminary preparation work for redevelopment of the former 
Whitehall Leather Co. tannery site into a condominium community is back 
on again.

The first major physical work to the buildings on the former industrial 
site was officially on hold because of the moratorium Gov. Jennifer 
Granholm recently imposed on all state grants, including $1.2 million 
for the tannery project. The moratorium is in response to the state's 
budget crisis.

Based on an exemption for the project and the city's willingness to 
delay receiving the grant money until the 2007-08 state fiscal year, the 
tannery project is ready to begin.

The 33-acre site along White Lake was contaminated by more than a 
century of leather-tanning operations. A group of developers, which took 
ownership of the site in November, has proposed a 200-unit condominium 
community.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-11/117872199717570.xml&coll=8

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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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