[CPEO-BIF] Buick City, Flint, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buick City, other brownfield redevelopment efforts hinge on 
environmental liability responsibility, Motors Liquidation Co. sale

by Melissa Burden
Flint Journal (MI)
July 30, 2009

FLINT, Michigan -- With up to 600 jobs and redevelopment of the vast 
Buick City complex at stake, the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce 
and community leaders are looking to the public to raise awareness of 
environmental liability hang-ups and an auction that could derail the 
project.

...

Officials have said that an unnamed investor wants to transform the 
about 220-acre Buick City site into a multimillion dollar rail-to-rail 
and rail-to-truck intermodal facility, creating up to 600 jobs, plus 
construction jobs.

"Our hard work may be lost if we don't resolve the brownfield issue," 
said Tim Herman, chief executive officer of the chamber, which along 
with other area leaders has spent hundreds of hours on the Buick City 
project over the past three years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/07/buick_city_other_brownfield_re.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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