[CPEO-BIF] International Harvester site, Canton, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Canton site prepped for project
City to provide drainage system at old IH area, set to get retail store

BY MATT BUEDEL
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR (IL)
January 16, 2008

CANTON - City officials have decided to take a short-term, less 
expensive approach to installing infrastructure on the former 
International Harvester site as a potential groundbreaking for the first 
project there looms.

Faced with two options that ranged in price from an estimated $195,000 
to more than $1.3 million for storm water drainage systems at the vacant 
Brownfield where the city's largest employer once operated, the City 
Council on Tuesday voted for the less costly choice.

That means they'll prep 14 of the 33 downtown acres on the northern 
border of the property - the parcels thought to be most primed for 
development - instead of incorporating a system that would include all 
of the land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/011608/REG_BFGS8143.049.php

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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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