2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Lakecrest Town Center, Perkins Township, Ohio
 
Lakecrest Town Center thriving in Perkins Township

By TOM JACKSON
Sandusky Register (OH)
May 4, 2009

PERKINS TWP.

Thursday was a good day for fans of the ALDI grocery chain.

Customers jammed the parking lot of the new store at 3612 Milan Road for its open house. Waited on by about 50 ALDI employees, they munched free samples of the food. As they left, a store employee handed each customer a canvas shopping bag filled with a water bottle and snacks.

The opening also was good news for Erie County's planning department and its commissioners.

The opening of a second anchor store at Lakecrest Town Center at U.S. 250 and Strub Road -- a huge new Menards store opened April 14 -- was another milestone in transforming an old brownfield site into a successful commercial development. Commissioners had approved a tax increment financing deal to help pay for improvements at the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2009/05/04/front/doc49fe6dbe4d937660978405.txt

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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
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