[CPEO-BIF] Wyoming, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wyoming: Dentist denied tax break for cleanup

By Matt Vande Bunte
The Grand Rapids Press (MI)
July 8, 2008

WYOMING -- This land is your land, so you clean it up, the City Council 
told longtime local dentist Richard Despres.

A refusal to provide environmental tax incentives could have a long-term 
impact on development of 13 acres at Byron Center Avenue and 52nd Street 
SW. Despres already has put his two-story, 7,640-square-foot office 
building on hold.

"The building, at this point, might be off the table," Despres said 
after the council voted unanimously Monday against his financing 
request. "These arsenic levels are very real. They have to be cleaned up.

...

The Brownfield Redevelopment Authority voted 3-2 in favor of the 
financing in May, but council members ruled that the pollution is not 
taxpayers' problem. One objection was that brownfield financing should 
be used to redevelop properties with existing buildings, not vacant sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1215522941196700.xml&coll=6

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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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