[CPEO-BIF] Harbor Isle, St. Joseph, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City OKs Harbor Isle brownfield
Designation makes development eligible for tax breaks

By DAVID WARFIELD
St. Joseph Herald-Palladium (MI)
October 28, 2009

ST. JOSEPH - The St. Joseph City Commission has approved a request by 
Harbor Isle Resort developers to have their Marina Island property 
declared a brownfield, making the developers eligible for up to $670,000 
in local property tax credits to help clean up arsenic at the site.

But the decision came with reluctance.

A few city officials and some residents at Monday's commission meeting 
stated their frustration over Harbor Isle Resort's slow progress and the 
city's pattern of helping developers whose projects don't materialize.

...

An environmental assessment performed in 1999 for a previous owner 
showed that soil at Harbor Isle Resort carries an unsafe amount of 
arsenic. Arsenic contamination was found in the St. Joseph River just 
northwest of the property, and it was suspected that it got there from 
groundwater running into the river from upland.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2009/10/28/local_news/935190.txt

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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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