[CPEO-BIF] Turning Brownfields Into Greenbacks (Michigan)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Turning Brownfields Into Greenbacks

By Jon Zemke
Metromode (Detroit, MI)
August 7, 2008



In a normal Michigan world the River of Glass wouldn't be in the 
location it is today. The glass blowing shop took over an old gas 
station on the edge of downtown Mt. Clemens earlier this year and has 
turned it into an eclectic gem of a store that adds to the city's unique 
character.

For years, the 1950s-era gas station was boarded up and abandoned. 
Spilled automotive fluid and old rusting tanks filled with gas, oil and 
who knows what else made the property an undevelopable blight.

Conventional Metro Detroit wisdom said knock it down and leave it as a 
vacant parking lot with the hope that someone would redevelop it one 
day. It's the path of least resistance, a strategy used time after time 
by Michiganders, leaving blocks of vacant dead space between downtowns 
and their adjacent neighborhoods.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/EcDevBrownfields0079.aspx

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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