2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] D.N. Leathers Townhomes, Corpus Christi, Texas
 
Site contamination verified
Corpus Christi Housing Authority did not include e-mail message in previous public information request

By Denise Malan
Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX)
September 17, 2009

CORPUS CHRISTI - The Corpus Christi Housing Authority withdrew from the D.N. Leathers Townhomes project because the land was contaminated, according to records released Thursday from a state agency.

The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, responding to a public information request by the Caller-Times, released an e-mail message from the Housing Authority disclosing the reason for abandoning the project. That e-mail was not included in a Housing Authority response to a similar request from the newspaper.

The Housing Authority has declined to answer questions about D.N. Leathers, a 130-unit public housing project near T.C. Ayers Park on the Northside.

The authority met with neighbors in December about the project, and residents have been curious why no construction has started. Local activist group Citizens for Environmental Justice released portions of the report two weeks ago, surmising it was why the project stalled.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/sep/17/contamination-is-verified-as-reason-for-shelving/

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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
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