[CPEO-BIF] U.S. Steel South Works mill, Chicago, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From brownfield to green?

by Mick Dumke
Chicago Reader (IL)
April 29, 2009

One of the biggest challenges in trying to rebuild the economy of the 
industrial midwest is to find new uses for property that once housed 
factories and mills and now sits idle, yielding no tax revenue or jobs. 
Lots of it is polluted and needs to be cleaned up before it can be 
developed--remediation of the average brownfield site costs $500,000 to 
$1 million, and Chicago alone has an estimated 1,000 of them. Some have 
been easier to turn around and reuse than others.

But there are ambitious plans in the works for one of the biggest--the 
600-acre site of the former U.S. Steel South Works mill, on the south 
lakefront from 79th Street to the Calumet River.

At its peak more than 20,000 people worked at the mill, but it shut down 
for good in 1992 after more than a decade of decline. (Click here for a 
short history of the mill.)

...

For the entire article, see
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/politics/2009/04/29/brownfield-green/

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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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