[CPEO-BIF] Guide Lamp site, Anderson, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Guide's Future: City contemplates plans

By Aleasha Sandley
Anderson Herald Bulletin (IN)
March 21, 2009

ANDERSON - In the past, it didn't take long for a visitor to Anderson 
entering from the south off Interstate 69 to realize what the city was 
all about.

A couple miles up Pendleton Avenue - recently renamed Martin Luther King 
Jr. Boulevard - and the visitor would be greeted by a mammoth example of 
Anderson's heritage: the tangle of manufacturing plants known as Guide Lamp.

During its heyday, Guide employed 6,500 workers who made parts, 
particularly head- and taillights, for General Motors vehicles.

...

Dawson said the city has had parties interested in the property, but for 
now the area is in no condition to be developed. It is considered a 
brownfield, a site that will need to be environmentally cleaned before 
development can locate there.

GM still owns the site and is going through an environmental exploration 
process to determine its needs. The outcome of the assessment will 
determine the next steps.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_080231116.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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