[CPEO-BIF] Buick City redevelopment, Flint, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Buick City redevelopment project focus of brownfield forum

by Kristin Longley
The Flint Journal (MI)
August 26, 2009

FLINT, Michigan -- A group of local, state and federal officials are 
working on overcoming the largest hurdle to redeveloping Buick City -- 
the site's long-term environmental liability.

That progress was the focus of a Brownfield Community Forum held this 
morning by the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce.

"I am somewhat optimistic as to getting the liability unlocked by the 
end of the year," said Tim Herman, CEO of the chamber. "But there's 
still a lot of work to be done."

An interested investor, who officials declined to name, is willing to 
put up $25 million to transform Buick City into an intermodal 
rail-to-truck transportation hub that could bring as many as 600 jobs.


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For the entire article, see
http://blog.mlive.com/flint-city-beat/2009/08/buick_city_redevelopment_proje.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
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