[CPEO-BIF] Former mill, Sanford, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup money next hurdle for mill redevelopment

By Jonathan Hunt
KeepMECurrent (ME)
November 18, 2008

SANFORD: When Sanford town officials decided to take possession of a 
blighted mill building by eminent domain in September, they knew they 
had a major project on their hands.

Two months later, the town is in the process of applying for two 
so-called Brownfields Grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency to help pay for cleaning up the remnants of industrial pollution 
in and around the structure. The two grants, each valued at $200,000, 
would be applied to the old mill at 61 Washington St., and the former 
Aerofab building nearby at 3 Aerofab Drive. A private developer from 
Portland has been tapped to redevelop the former mill into a housing 
complex, with the Aerofab site slated to provide parking.

"We've got to clean them up to develop them, and if we didn't get the 
grant funding it would present a very difficult hurdle for us to get 
over," said Town Manager Mark Green last week.

Green, who characterized the playing field for such grants as "extremely 
competitive" at the Nov. 4 Town Council meeting, recognized the 
magnitude of the cleanup, but said it was not unanticipated.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.keepmecurrent.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=60605

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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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