[CPEO-BIF] Immokalee affordable housing site, Collier County,

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Immokalee affordable housing site gets Brownfield designation

Naples Daily News (FL)
December 12, 2007

Collier County commissioners have approved a resolution designating land
that will be developed into affordable housing within the Immokalee
Enterprise Zone.

Commissioners on Tuesday designated the parcels associated with the
Crestview Park Development I and II, an affordable housing development
in Immokalee, as a Brownfield Area for the purpose of economic
development and environmental rehabilitation.

Brownfield sites are generally abandoned, idled or underutilized
commercial or industrial properties where redevelopment is complicated
by suspected contamination.

The Brownfield designation provides a variety of economic incentives
such as state loan guarantees.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/dec/12/immokalee_affordable_housing_site_gets_brownfield_/?breaking_news

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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>
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