[CPEO-BIF] Paper plant redevelopment, Parchment, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Parchment paper plant redevelopment progresses

by Olivia Pulsinelli
Business Review Western Michigan
February 16, 2009

After nearly a decade of false starts and setbacks, the city of 
Parchment will say good-bye to an abandoned paper mill and replace it 
with a green mixed-use community.

Through a partnership with River Reach Partners, made up of Denver-based 
Frontier Renewal and Kansas City-based Lundine & Associates, the city 
will increase not only the percentage of its usable land but also could 
nearly double its population of 1,900 people. Parchment Mayor Rob 
Heasley, along with Eric Williams, president and CEO of Frontier 
Renewal, and Larry Lundine, president of Lundine & Associates, will 
present the land plan at an open house Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in 
the Parchment Community Library community room.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2009/02/parchment_paper_plant_redevelo.html

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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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