[CPEO-BIF] Interchange Business Center, San Bernardino, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chetan 1.2 MSF Project on Former Brownfield Site in California Earns 
LEED Certification

By Tonie Auer
Contract Magazine
July 23, 2009


A 1.2-million-square-foot industrial park touted as the largest 
speculative industrial project in the United States became one of the 
largest overall projects in California to receive LEED certification. 
Developed by Dallas-based Hillwood, the project was sold to CB Richard 
Ellis Investors a year ago, but Hillwood staff recently completed the 
Silver LEED certification process on behalf of the new buyer.

...

Prior to its extensive remediation, the 144-acre site was defined as a 
brownfield. The location dates back to before World War II, when it 
housed a facility to manufacture silica gel. During the war, the site 
was used for the storage, packing and testing of six-pound incendiary 
bombs for the military. Later it was used for zeolite production of 
mineral based composites used in water softening.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/news/e3i13c7558c2d1a9d596106aa8e6cf70d7c

--


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



_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org