[CPEO-BIF] Belle Mead Depot, Hillsborough, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Please excuse the duplicate posting, but this is a former defense 
facility for which the township seeks a brownfields cleanup grant. - LS]


Hillsborough officials give key approval to transform GSA Depot property

By PAMELA SROKA—HOLZMANN
New Brunswick Home News Tribune (NJ)
April 25, 2008

HILLSBOROUGH - Moving forward with plans to transform the 369-acre 
General Services Administration's Belle Mead Depot into parkland and 
space for recreation, township officials have approved the site as 
property in need of redevelopment.

The Township Committee approved the measure Tuesday, after the Planning 
Board recommended the designation for the depot on April 10. The 
Planning Board made that determination after reviewing a report from 
CME, a planning consulting firm, which stated the site met the statutory 
criteria for redevelopment.

...

In the meantime, the Township Committee has applied for a state 
brownfields grant to help transform the site into a park and recreation 
area, with portions of the property zoned for research and development. 
Mayor Anthony Ferrera said the township hopes to get state funding for 
the estimated $17 million cost to clean up the property. A state grant 
could fund up to 75 percent of the cleanup cost, Ferrera has said

...

The depot was an Army warehouse facility through the Vietnam War. During 
World War II, the facility was used as a camp for captured members of 
the Italian military. The property was then turned over to the General 
Services Administration and was used until its closure in 1991.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/NEWS/804250560/1001

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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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