[CPEO-BIF] Fort Pierce, Florida "black eye"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Will commission designate area of Fort Pierce a brownfield?

By Alexi Howk
Vero Beach Press-Journal (FL)
June 18, 2008

FORT PIERCE - Some city officials want to encourage business development 
in 3,900 acres that includes the Port of Fort Pierce by designating it a 
brownfield.

But City Commissioner Reggie Sessions says the brownfield label is just 
a black eye on Fort Pierce's reputation.

Fort Pierce officials are looking to designate the city's entire 
enterprise zone — an area targeted for economic growth — as a brownfield 
because the state designation entitles the city for development and 
business-expansion incentives. A brownfield is an underused commercial 
property where environmental hazards might hinder redevelopment.

The City Commission is expected to vote on a resolution allowing the 
brownfield designation at a future meeting. Commissioners postponed a 
vote on the issue Monday as officials worked to add revise the 
resolution and waited on pending legislation regarding the designation 
process.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/18/30gtwill-commission-designate-area-of-city-a/

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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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