[CPEO-BIF] Ironsides Battery. Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[This article raises a question that I've been wondering about lately, 
based upon site visits in New York state. To what degree is the reuse of 
a factory building, by a new owner, a brownfield redevelopment? Anyone 
have an answer? - LS]


Community benefits from new business

By Joann Schrauth
Oshkosh Northwestern (WI)
August 7, 2007

It took a long time, but the former Ironsides Battery brownfield site 
has found new life.

And county officials — who had been trying to sell the property for more 
than a decade — are breathing a sigh of relief.

It's exciting to see West Bend Machine Works in the former battery 
factory — a brownfield site that was reclaimed by Fond du Lac County, 
said Brenda Hicks-Sorensen, president of the Fond du Lac County Economic 
Development Corporation. The property had been vacant since 1990.

The FCEDC helped Fond du Lac County market the building. West Bend 
Machine Works purchased the property in October 2006 for $119,000.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070807/FON03/708070349/1327/OSHbusiness

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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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