[CPEO-BIF] Novel "Brownfields" designation in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Apparently, in Michigan a Brownfield is any site that a developer wants 
a subsidy for, even if it isn't likely to be contaminated. - Ls]

Mission Street apartments to be rebuilt


By MARK RANZENBERGER
Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun
June 28, 2007

The old Western Islands apartment complex in Mt. Pleasant will be the 
latest student apartment complex to be torn down and replaced with 
fewer, but newer apartments.

The complex, in the 1500 block of South Mission Street, is owned by RCS 
Equities, a company connected to United Investments, the largest student 
landlord in the Mt. Pleasant area. The complex dates back to the 1960s.

City commissioners this week, on a 5-2 vote, approved declaring the 
project a brownfield redevelopment project, allowing the owner to gain a 
tax break for redeveloping the project. The decades-old complex does not 
appear to be contaminated; instead, it qualified as a brownfield by 
being declared "functionally obsolete" by the city assessor.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/062807/loc_mission.shtml

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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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