[CPEO-BIF] Dunedin and Tarpon Springs, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What's a little contamination among friends?

COLUMN BY MARK SCHANTZ
SUNCOAST NEWS (FL)
September 5, 2009

What's a little contamination among friends, especially when it means 
millions of federal tax stimulus dollars being available to local 
governments and area developers?

Cities like Largo and Clearwater have already utilized the Environmental 
Protection Agency's Brownfields Redevelopment Grant Program to 
revitalize their depressed areas, by providing economic incentives to 
developers and business owners. These grant funds can spark a new wave 
of economic redevelopment eliminating urban blight in commercial and 
industrial areas. It can help property owners repair and redevelop 
buildings.

The Dunedin City Commission is considering declaring its downtown 
community redevelopment district and other parts of its city a 
brownfield. The designation would be a great fit in Tarpon Springs, 
which badly needs to attract developers and spark economic redevelopment 
downtown, at the Sponge Docks and along the Pinellas Avenue corridor.

...

For the entire column, see
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/05/pi-whats-a-little-contamination-among-friends/

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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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