[CPEO-BIF] Riverfront plan, Savannah, Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Riverfront plan remains stalled

By Johnny Edwards
Augusta Chronicle
September 15, 2008

The developer of a highly anticipated Savannah riverfront 
office-condominium-hotel-retail project has said he has yet to buy the 
six acres of riverfront property from the city -- a $1.85 million 
transaction -- because he's waiting for the Georgia Environmental 
Protection Division to sign off.

The EPD says, however, the holdup isn't on its end.

Nikki Haborak, a geologist with the Brownfield Redevelopment Unit, said 
she asked American Environmental and Construction Services, a consulting 
company for Bluffton, S.C.-based The Foxfield Co., to add more 
information to its compliance status report on June 20. She has been 
waiting for an answer ever since, she said.

Once the process is finished, EPD will issue a limitation of liability 
letter protecting the property's new owner from being sued over past 
contamination, Ms. Haborack said.

Cleanup of the site, a former train yard, has long been finished.

...

For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/091508/met_473544.shtml

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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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