[CPEO-BIF] Belvidere, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City edges closer to reclaiming contaminated sites

By Kevin Haas
Rockford Register Star (IL)
July 04, 2009

BELVIDERE -

The land between Meadow Street and the Kishwaukee River has a story to tell.

Once the home of mammoth manufacturer National Sewing Machine Co., which 
employed 1,200 people at its peak, the plot of land was later deemed an 
environmental hazard and an eyesore.

"You look across the river and there are big concrete blocks and junk 
piled up. It's not very appealing," said Ed Marx, who lived in a home 
across the river at 303 E. Lincoln Ave. for 19 years. Redevelopment "is 
something I think the whole neighborhood is looking forward to - a 
change in there and bringing it up."

A project to redevelop the land has inched along for more than a decade.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.rrstar.com/belvidere/x1885882080/City-edges-closer-to-reclaiming-contaminated-sites

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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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