[CPEO-BIF] Westsport development, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City prepares for Westport project

ROBBIE WHELAN
Maryland Daily Record
December 30, 2008

Down by the Westport light rail stop in South Baltimore, the sound of 
rattling engines fills the air as backhoes equipped with large magnets 
sort metal from concrete rubble into huge piles of twisted debris to be 
reused for construction projects or shipped off to be recycled.

Here, on a 50-acre site a short distance from both Interstate 95 and the 
calm waters of the Patapsco’s Middle Branch, developer Patrick Turner is 
less than a month away from completing the demolition of a 100-year-old 
BG&E power station to make way for his $1.5 billion Westport Waterfront 
project, which he envisions as a “second downtown,” with condos, 
offices, parks and a hotel.

But for the next 18 to 24 months, he said Tuesday, his efforts will be 
consumed by a massive infrastructure development project.

Three weeks ago, Baltimore’s city council approved a plan to issue $160 
million in tax-exempt bonds to build roads, extend sewer and power 
lines, plant trees and grade sidewalks at Westport, in order to prepare 
the neighborhood for the buildings that Turner intends to start erecting 
in 2010.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=10402&type=UTTM

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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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