[CPEO-BIF] East Village, East Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Student housing at stake in E.L. redevelopment

By Jeff Kanan
The State News (MI)
March 1, 2009

Despite recent concerns from property owners in the East Village area 
and actions to label the area as environmentally contaminated, city 
officials said they have no intention of using eminent domain to acquire 
an area of land that’s home to housing for thousands of MSU students.

San Diego-based Pierce Education Properties currently is 12 months into 
a 30-month deadline to complete land acquisition of private properties 
located in the planned East Village area but hasn’t acquired any properties.

....

Additional concern was raised late last year when the city began 
assessing the history of the area for any suspicion of environmental 
contamination, which is the first phase in declaring a site as a 
brownfield, said Tim Dempsey, a community and economic development 
administrator for East Lansing.

The next phase would be testing on the site to declare it as an 
environmentally contaminated area.

A brownfield designation could call for an environmental cleanup of the 
area and make it possible for the city to use eminent domain.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/03/student_housing_at_stake_in_el_redevelopment


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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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