[CPEO-BIF] Target, Ansonia, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Target a brownfield success story

Patricia Villers
New Haven Register (CT)
August 8, 2007

ANSONIA - Elected officials and Target shoppers alike applauded Tuesday 
outside the new store as Gov. M. Jodi Rell ceremonially signed into law 
a bill that assists developers in brownfield site cleanup.
Rell already had signed the actual bill, "An Act Implementing the 
Recommendations of the Brownfields Task Force," which went into effect 
July 1.

"This law expands the state's capacity to clean up and redevelop 
contaminated property," Rell said. "This law epitomizes smart or 
responsible growth. It is the foundation of our anti-sprawl efforts. It 
makes far more economic and environmental sense to clean up and reuse an 
old factory site or old store than to lose acres of virgin farmland or 
open space to development."

Rell said cleaning up contaminated sites is also a quality-of-life 
consideration.

The new Target store opened last week on a redeveloped 10-acre parcel on 
West Main Street, at the former site of Latex Foam Products Co., which 
was destroyed by a May 2001 fire.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18675160&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=31007&rfi=6

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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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