[CPEO-BIF] Opa-Locka Airport, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Another state with a creative definition of "brownfield" - LS]

Opa-locka Airport seeks 410 new jobs

by Brian Bandell
South Florida Business Journal
July 25, 2008

An unnamed German aviation manufacturing company considering a move to 
Opa-locka Airport may add to the $450 million worth of development 
planned for the site.

...

The state would contribute $2,296,000 through its Qualified Target 
Industry program and $820,000 more through a brownfield redevelopment 
bonus, while Miami-Dade would pick up the rest.

However, Opa-locka Airport isn't part of the county brownfield, 
according to Miguel Southwell, deputy director of business retention and 
development for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.

That may not matter, though. The Beacon Council helped move the 
brownfield designation line so Becton Dickinson and Co. could claim more 
public incentives when it opened a facility in Miami. Environmental 
contamination isn't a requirement for naming a property a brownfield.

...

For the entire article, see
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/07/28/story1.html?b=1217217600%5E1673460

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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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