[CPEO-BIF] "East Bay Township [MI] questions tax break"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

East Bay Township questions tax break

BY BRIAN MCGILLIVARY
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
Sat, May 03 2008


TRAVERSE CITY -- East Bay Township officials are questioning why they 
should give a $21,000 brownfield tax break to a development on a clean site.

The Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is pushing 
the special designation for the nearly completed Traverse Bay Bear 
Company sportswear and souvenir shop on the corner of U.S. 31 and Three 
Mile Road.

Township Supervisor Glen Lile said he doesn't see the advantage of 
granting the designation.

"We don't have a blighted area, we have a brand new building there," 
Lile said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_124093526.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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