[CPEO-BIF] Fillit Corp. site, Palmyra, New Jerseu

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fillit site remains Palmyra obstacle
The 104 acres, called a mess by the borough, are central to plans for 
redevelopment. Now the company is suing.

By Maya Rao
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
May 18, 2009

Consultants examining 189 acres targeted for redevelopment in Palmyra 
found the largest property owner's site in disarray.

The Fillit Corp. site, they wrote in a report last year, was covered 
with ground-up vegetation, mounds of mulch and topsoil, a dilapidated 
office trailer, inoperable vehicles, and piles of junk abutting 
Pennsauken Creek.

Also, it and nearby properties were the subject of ongoing 
investigations into contamination from a long-closed landfill, while its 
soil samples had elevated levels of pesticides, arsenic, and other 
chemicals, according to borough records.

Now Palmyra is fighting a legal challenge from Fillit over the borough's 
designation of the area as in need of redevelopment - a lawsuit that has 
thrown another obstacle before a major South Jersey project already 
scaled back because of the economy.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20090518_Palmyra_redevelopment_project_remains_stalled.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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