2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 11 May 2007 15:01:59 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Wal-Mart in Birmingham’s Titusville neighborhood (Alabama)
 
Langford backs Wal-Mart deal

Kyle Whitmire
Birmingham Weekly (AL)
May 10, 2007


Jefferson County Commissioner Larry Langford wants to make way for a Wal-Mart in Birmingham’s Titusville neighborhood, bucking opposition to the project from Commissioner Shelia Smoot and Birmingham City Councilor Steven Hoyt. In the commission’s Thursday morning work session, Langford put a resolution on the agenda for next Tuesday voicing the commission’s blessing for the project.

Last month, Wal-Mart openly expressed interest in the site, which Birmingham and Jefferson County had rehabilitated from a brownfield. Just west of I-65 in downtown Birmingham, the local governments had paid to cleanup industrial waste left by the now-defunct Trinity Steel plant. In addition to offering more than the cleanup costs to buy the site, Wal-Mart has promised as much as $1 million of investment into the surrounding neighborhood. The retailer could bring in more than $4 million per year in sales taxes and occupational taxes for the city and county.

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For the entire article, see
http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2007/05/10/politics-langford-backs-wal-mart-deal/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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