[CPEO-BIF] Largo, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfields bring in green

By Demorris A. Lee
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
June 27, 2008

In an effort to spur economic development, Largo is requesting that a 
large swath of the city be designated a brownfield redevelopment area.

Brownfield sites are typically abandoned, idle or underused industrial 
and commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is 
complicated by environmental contamination. The designation is primarily 
used as a tool by local governments to qualify for state and federal grants.

"It's an opportunity to have an area get re-energized and to encourage 
developers to come in, especially in the commercial areas," said Teresa 
Brydon, Largo's economic development manager. "It allows developers to 
come into an existing site, revitalize it and create an opportunity 
where we are not going into the green space and building out when we 
don't need to."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/article647947.ece

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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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