2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 23 Sep 2007 23:49:41 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ironton Works site, Provo, Utah
 
Provo business park gets $2M grant  	

GRACE LEONG
Provo Daily Herald (UT)
September 22, 2007

More than 1,500 new manufacturing jobs and millions of dollars in private investment could be generated in Provo over the next decade, thanks to a $2 million federal grant awarded on Friday to the Mountain Vista Business Center expansion project.

Mountain Vista was part of Ironton Works, a plant that shut down in the '60s and had lain idle for almost five decades until several years ago when Provo city, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. Steel decided to remediate the site.

But the 327-acre former brownfield will soon become more marketable once much-needed infrastructure improvements are made with the $2 million matching grant.

"The site has been cleaned up to industrial standards and has parcels available for business expansion...."



For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/238270/3/

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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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