[CPEO-BIF] U. Delaware to build on former Chrysler plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U. Delaware planning big expansion

By Susan Snyder
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 27, 2009

The University of Delaware is planning the largest campus expansion in 
its history - largely for research - with its intended purchase of an 
adjacent 272-acre site formerly occupied by Chrysler Corp., which 
declared bankruptcy earlier this year.

University officials envision building laboratories and other science 
and research facilities, and also are considering a medical campus in 
partnership with Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and several 
Delaware medical institutions.

...

But it will take two years to clean up the site, including demolishing 
the sprawling, now idle, Chrysler assembly plant. The university has 
agreed to accept liability for any environmental cleanup, Douglass said. 
It is eligible for up to $1 million in state assistance, according to 
state environmental officials.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20091027_U__Delaware_planning_big_expansion.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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