[CPEO-BIF] Kiser Plating Site, Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Blight Watch: Top brownfield assessed

An environmental assessment of the former Kiser Plating site in downtown 
Muncie has been completed.

By SETH SLABAUGH
Muncie Star Press (IN)
October 27, 2008

MUNCIE -- A consultant has completed an environmental assessment of the 
city's highest-priority brownfield site, a downtown property used by 
industry for more than a century.

The names of businesses that have occupied the location going back to 
1887 include Muncie Bagging Co., Muncie Heat, Light and Power Co., 
Muncie Jewelry and Plating Works, J.F. Kiser Plating Works, and 
Shear-Line Golf Equipment.

All but one building at the site, 401 E. Howard St., a block east of the 
downtown YMCA, were destroyed by fire in 2001. A rusty old building with 
graffiti, broken windows and one of its doors standing open is all that 
remains at the site, other than weeds and concrete slabs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20081027/NEWS01/810270336/1002

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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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