[CPEO-BIF] West End Village, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Slow market keeps West End Village on hold

Developer slowly moves ahead with third phase of its mixed-use project


By Richard Craver
Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
June 24, 2008

A slow residential market in downtown Winston-Salem is keeping the third 
phase of West End Village in neutral.

But West End Ventures LLC, which operates the mixed-use project, is 
trying to plug ahead where it can.

The group has filed a request for brownfield approval with the N.C. 
Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the eight-acre site. 
That includes "Fourth and Green," which would contain primarily 
residential units with a pool and retail shops.

The request for a brownfieldagreement lists soil contamination from past 
activity at the site.

Part of the property was used for automotive repair work and also served 
as the former dealership for Modern Chevrolet, which moved from the site 
in 2004.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jun/24/slow-market-keeps-west-end-village-on-hold/?news

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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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