[CPEO-BIF] McDonald's a brownfield? - East Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Where is the Brownfield?

Russ Harding
Mackinac Center for Public Policy (MI)
February 12, 2009

Joe Maguire, president of Wolverine Development and a Mackinac Center 
board member, was dumbfounded when he received a letter last December 
from an environmental consulting firm requesting his consent for access 
to conduct an environmental assessment on property he owns in East 
Lansing. Maguire's well-maintained property features a McDonald's 
restaurant in the East Village area adjacent to the Michigan State 
University campus.

Maguire was not aware of any environmental pollution on his property and 
certainly had not requested an assessment. After some research, he 
quickly discovered this was not an administrative blunder but rather an 
attempt by East Lansing officials to reclassify his property a 
brownfield site.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=10276

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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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