2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Northville Psychiatric Hospital, Michigan
 
The American way is under attack

Scott Spielman, Editor
Journal Newspapers (MI)
July 24, 2008

The fight between people in Northville Township and officials in the City of Livonia over the annexation of the Northville Psychiatric Hospital just keeps getting weirder and uglier.

...

When REIS approached Northville Township, they wanted $15 million in the form of a Brownfield Redevelopment funding. That was before they knew they might have to tap into the Livonia sewer system and potentially dig beneath I-275. If a Brownfield is granted, those funds will eventually be recouped, but residents expecting a major influx of capital into the city general fund any time soon will be sorely disappointed.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.journalgroup.com/Opinion/8080/the-american-way-is-under-attack

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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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