[CPEO-BIF] Becton Dickinson, Miami, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Another case of "brownfields" redefined - LS]

Miami-Dade OKs biotech incentive request

by Brian Bandell
South Florida Business Journal
February 7, 2008

Miami-Dade County commissioners approved a motion to ask Florida for 
$150,000 more in job growth incentives for Becton Dickinson and Co., 
which has already secured $1.36 million in incentives to open a Miami 
facility.

On Thursday, the commissioners voted to forgo a local match and ask the 
state to award the Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based biotechnology firm 
$150,000 to create 75 jobs and spend $21.1 million in capital 
improvements under the Brownfield Redevelopment program. Although the 
former Ivax Corp. site -- at 50 N.W. 176th St. -- that Becton Dickinson 
purchased wasn't contaminated or in a Brownfield, the commission also 
redrew the Brownfield map on Thursday to add that site, along with some 
other properties.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/02/04/daily44.html

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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
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