[CPEO-BIF] Frank Foundry, Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Foundry a blight on its neighborhood
The eastside property has been closed, mostly unused since 1985.

By KEITH ROYSDON
Muncie Star Press (IN)
December 17, 2007

MUNCIE -- The Frank Foundry on the city's east side has been closed 
since 1985. In the past 22 years, the sprawling, gray industrial complex 
has been the focus of a lot of legal wrangling and the site of some 
clean-up work.

The foundry remains, however, an eyesore. Its run-down buildings and 
broken windows cast a pall over the neighborhood around Eighth and 
Brotherton streets.

Property owner Steve Reed -- who came into possession of the property in 
the 1990s, after a former owner failed to pay property taxes and 
defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans -- said last week 
he was frustrated by failed efforts to get brownfield funding to clean 
up the property.

In the meantime, Reed said, he's slowly cleaning up the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071217/NEWS01/712170309/1002/NEWS01

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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